The Huainanzi, A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer and Harold D. Roth, published by Columbia University Press in 2010, is the standard modern scholarly critical translation of this Han-dynasty text on cosmology, statecraft and self-cultivation. Its authority rests on Columbia University Press's peer review and the four scholars' combined specialist standing in early Chinese thought. It is the primary text in careful, annotated translation, with the translators' own introductions and notes situating disputed passages within current scholarly debate rather than resolving them by assertion.
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The Huainanzi, A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer and Harold D. Roth, published by Columbia University Press in 2010, the top tier reflecting Columbia's peer review and the four scholars' combined specialist standing, with the translators' own notes situating disputed passages within current scholarly debate rather than resolving them by assertion. NotesScholarly translation and study of the Huainanzi, a Han-dynasty text on early Chinese government and cosmology, Columbia University Press, 2010.
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AuthorJohn S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer and Harold D. Roth (trans. and eds.)
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication Year2010
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