by An Liu
Translations into Western Languages
Ames, Roger T. The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1983. Reprint, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. [Chap. 9]
Ames, Roger T., and D. C Lau. Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source. Classics of Ancient China. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. [Chap. 1]
Balfour, Frederic Henry. “The Principles of Nature; a Chapter from the ‘History of Great Light’ by Huai-nan-Tze, Prince of Kiang-Ling.” China Review, no. 9 (1880–1881): 281– 97. [Chap. 1]
——. Taoist Texts: Ethical, Political and Speculative. London: Trubner, 1884; Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1884. [Includes chap. 1]
Birdwhistell, [Jo] Anne [née Joanne Letitia Davison]. “A Translation of Chapter 17 (Shuolin) of the Huainanzi.” Master’s thesis, Stanford University, 1968.
Chatley, Herbert. “Huai-nan-tsu Chapter Three.” Draft translation, ca. 1939. Original typescript in the Needham Research Institute Library, Cambridge, England.
Erkes, Eduard. “Das Weltbild des Huai-nan-Tze.” Ostasiens Zeitschrift, no. 5 (1916–1917): 27–80. [Chap. 4]
Harper, Donald. “Huai-nan Tzu Chapter 10: Translation and Prolegomena.” Master’s thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
Kraft, Eva. “Zum Huai-nan-Tzu. Enfürung, Übersetzung (Kapitel I und II) und Interpretation.” Monumenta Serica, no. 16 (1957): 191–286; no. 17 (1958): 128–207.
Larre, Claude. Le Traité VII du Houai Nan Tseu: Les ésprits légers et subtils animateurs de l’essence: Analyse des structures d’expression et traduction, avec notes et commentaires, de la partie doctrinale du traité VII du Houai Nan Tseu (HNT VII, 1a–7a). Variétés sinologiques, vol. 67. Taibei: Institut Ricci, 1982.
Larre, Claude, Isabelle Robinet, and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée. Les Grands Traités du Huainanzi. Variétés sinologiques, vol. 75. Paris: Institut Ricci, 1993. [Chaps. 1, 7, 11, 13, 18]
Le Blanc, Charles. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought: The Idea of Resonance (Kan-ying) with a Translation and Analysis of Chapter Six. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1985.
Le Blanc, Charles, and Rémi Mathieu, eds. Philosophes taoïstes. Vol. 2, Huainan zi: Texte traduit, présenté et annoté. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2003. [Complete translation]
Major, John S. Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four and Five of the Huainanzi. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
——. “Topography and Cosmology in Early Han Thought: Chapter Four of the Huai-nan Tzu.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1973.
Morgan, Evan S. “The Operations and Manifestations of the Tao Exemplified in History.” Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, no. 52 (1921): 1–39. [Chap. 12]
——. Tao, the Great Luminant: Essays from Huai-nan Tzu. 1933. Reprint, Taibei: Cheng Wen, 1974. [Chaps. 1, 2, 7, 8, 12 ,13, 15, 19]
Pomeranceva, Larisa E. Pozdnie daosy o prirode obscestve i iskustve “Huainan’czy.” Moscow: University of Moscow, 1979. [Chaps. 1, 2, 6, 9, 21]
Ryden, Edmund. Philosophy of Peace in Han China: A Study of the Huainanzi Ch. 15 on Military Strategy. Taibei: Ricci Institute, 1998.
Sailey, Jay. “An Annotated Translation of Huai Nan Tzu Chapter XVI.” Master’s thesis, Stanford University, 1971.
Wallacker, Benjamin. The Huai-nan-tzu, Book Eleven: Behavior, Culture and the Cosmos. American Oriental Series, vol. 48. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1962.
Modern Chinese Translations
Chen Guangzhong . Huainanzi yizhu . Zhongguo gudai mingzhu jinyi congshu . Changchun: Jilin wenshi chubanshe, 1990.
Liu Kangde . Huainanzi zhijie . Shanghai: Fudan daxue, 2001.
Wang Ning , comp., and Wang Guiyuan and Ye Guigang , eds. Huainanzi . In Pingxiben baihua Lüshi chunqiu, Huainanzi ,, 303–645. Beijing: Beijing guangbo xueyuan chubanshe, 1993.
Wu Guangping and Liu Wensheng . Baihua Huainanzi . Changsha: Yuelu shushe, 1998. [Huainanzi preface by Mao Dun , 1925]
Xiong Lihui . Xinyi Huainanzi . Taibei: Sanmin shuju, 1997.
Critical Editions
Chen Yiping . Huainanzi jiao zhu yi . Guangzhou: Guangdong renmin chuban she, 1994. [Includes modern Chinese translation]
Hattori Unokichi . Enanji . Kanbun taikei , vol. 20. Tokyo: Fuji Bookstore, 1914.
He Ning . Huainanzi jishi . Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1998.
Kusuyama Haruki . Enanji . Vols. 54, 55, 62. In Shinshaku kanbun taikei . Tokyo: Meiji shōin, 1979–1988. [Includes modern Japanese translation]
Lau, D. C. Huainanzi zhuzi suoyin . Institute for Chinese Studies Chinese Text Concordance Series. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1992.
Liu Jiali . Huainan jizheng . Shanghai: Zhonghua shuju, 1924.
Liu Wendian . Huainan honglie jijie . Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1923. Reprint, Feng Yi and Qiao Hua , eds. Xinbian zhuzi jicheng . Beijing : Zhonghua shuju, 1989. [Appends Liu Wendian’s text-critical comments and lost Huainanzi passages from his work Sanyu zhaji, along with Qian Tang’s Huainan tianwenxun buzhu]
Togawa Yoshirō , Kiyama Hideo , and Sawaya Harutsugu . Enanji . In Chūgoku koten bungaku taikei , vol. 6. 1974. Reprint, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1978. [Includes modern Japanese translation]
Zhang Shuangdi . Huainanzi jiaoshi . Beijing: Beijing University Press, 1997.
Philosophy of the Huainanzi
Alt, Wayne. “The Huai-nan Tzu Alteration.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 20, no. 1 (1993): 73–86.
Ames, Roger T. “Wu-Wei in the ‘Art of Rulership’ Chapter of Huai-nan Tzu: Its Sources and Philosophical Orientation.” Philosophy East and West 31, no. 2 (1981): 193–213.
Arima Takuya . Enanji no seiji shisō Tokyo: Kyūko shoin, 1998.
Bai Guanghua . “Wo dui Huainanzi de yixie kanfa” Daojia wenhua yanjiu , no. 6 (1995): 192–99.
Chen Dehe . Huainanzi de zhexue . Renwen congshu, vol. 9, 945–46. Jiayi Xian, Dalinzhen: Nanhua guanli xueyuan, 1999.
Chen Jing . Ziyou yu zhixu de kunhuo: “Huainanzi” yanjiu :. Kunming: Yunnan daxue chubanshe, 2004.
Chen Ligui . “Cong chutu zhujian Wenzi kan gu, jinben Wenzi yu Huainanzi zhijiande xianhou guanxi ji jige sixiang lunti” . Zhexue yu Wenhua 23, no. 8 (1996): 1871–84.
——. “Daojia yangsheng guan zai Handai de yanbian yu zhuanhua—yi Huainanzi, Laozi zhigui, Laozi He Shang gong zhangju, Laozi Xiang’er zhu wei hexin” . Guowen xuebao , no. 39 (2006): 35–80.
——. “Huainan duo Chuyu: Lun Huainanzi de wenzi” . Hanxue yanjiu 2, no. 1 (1984): 167–83.
——. “Shi jiu jin ben Wenzi yu Huainanzi de buchongxi neirong tuice guben Wenzi de ji ge sixiang lunti” . Daojia wenhua yanjiu , no. 18 (2000): 200–31.
Chen Yiping . Huiji gejia xueshuo de juzhu: “Huainanzi.” :. Beijing: Zhongguo wenlian chuban gongsi, 1997.
Cullen, Christopher. “A Chinese Eratosthenes of the Flat Earth: A Study of a Fragment of Cosmology in Huai Nan Tzu.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39, no. 1 (1976): 106–27. [Revised and expanded version in John S. Major, Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 269–90]
Dai Shu . “Huainanzi” zhidao sixiang yanjiu . Guangzhou: Zhongshan daxue chubanshe, 2005.
Davis, Tenney L. “The Dualistic Cosmogony of Huai-Nan-Tzu and Its Relations to the Background of Chinese and of European Alchemy.” Isis 25, no. 2 (1936): 327–40.
Duan Qiuguan . “Huainanzi” yu Liu An de falü sixiang Beijing: Qunzhong chubanshe, 1986.
Fang Zushen . “Huainanzi yu qi zuozhe” . Zhongyang 1973.10:141–47.
Goldin, Paul Rakita. “Insidious Syncretism in the Political Philosophy of Huai-Nan-Tzu.” Asian Philosophy 9, no. 3 (1999): 165–91.
Harlez, Charles Joseph de. “Textes taoistes.” Annales du Mus�
�e Guimet, no. 20 (1891): 171–212.
Howard, Jeffrey A. “Concepts of Comprehensiveness and Historical Change in the Huai-Nan-Tzu.” In Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology: Papers Presented at the Workshop on Classical Chinese Thought Held at Harvard University, August 1976, edited by Henry Rosemont Jr., 119–32. Journal of the American Academy of Religion Studies, vol. 50, no. 2. 1984. Reprint, Charleston, S.C.: Booksurge, 2006
Hu Shi . Huainanwang shu . 1931. Reprint, Taibei: Taiwan shangwu yinshuguan, 1962.
Kanaya Osamu . Rōsō teki sekai: Enanji no shisō 1959. Reprint, Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1992.
Kandel, Barbara. “Der Versüch einer politischen Restauration: Liu An, der König von Huai-Nan.” Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Naturund Völkerkunde Ostasiens, no. 113 (1973): 33–96.
Kohn, Livia. “Cosmology, Myth, and Philosophy in Ancient China: New Studies on the ‘Huainan Zi.’” Asian Folklore Studies 53, no. 2 (1994): 319–36.
Kusuyama Haruki . “Enanji yori mitaru Sōshi no seiritsu” filosofia, no. 41 (1961): 41–68.
——. “Enanō ‘Sōshi ryakuyō’ Sōshi kōkai’ kō” . Filosofia, no. 38 (1960): 52–70.
Kuttner, Fritz A. “The 749-Temperament of Huai Nan Tzu (+ 123 B.C.).” Asian Music 6, nos. 1–2: (1975): 88–112. [Special issue: Perspectives on Asian Music: Essays in Honor of Dr. Laurence E. R. Picken]
Laloy, Louis. “Hoaî-Nân Tzè et la musique.” T’oung Pao 15, nos. 1–5 (1914): 501–30.
Le Blanc, Charles. “From Cosmology to Ontology Through Resonance: A Chinese Interpretation of Reality.” In Beyond Textuality: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation, edited by Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin, 57–77. Paris: Mouton de Bruyter, 1995.
——. “From Ontology to Cosmogony: Notes on Chuang Tzu and Huai-nan Tzu.” In Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde, edited by Charles LeBlanc and Susan Blader, 117–29. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987.
——. Huai-nan Tzu. In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe, 189–95. Early China Special Monograph, no. 2. Berkeley, Calif.: Society for the Study of Early China and Institute of East Asian Studies, 1993.
——. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought: The Idea of Resonance (Kan-ying) with a Translation and Analysis of Chapter Six. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1985.
Le Blanc, Charles, and Rémi Mathieu. Mythe et philosophie à l’aube de la Chine impériale: Études sur Le Huainanzi. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1992; Paris: De Boccard, 1992.
Li Zeng . Huainanzi zhexue sixiang yanjiu [original title: Huainanzi sixiang zhi yanjiu lunwen ji ]. Taibei: Hongxie wenhua shiye, 1997.
Liu Dehan . Huainanzi yu Laozi canzheng . Taibei: Lexue shuju, 2001.
Liu Xiaogan . “Huainanzi and Wu-Wei (Non-Action).” In Contacts Between Cultures. Vol. 3, Eastern Asia: Literature and Humanities, edited by Bernard Hung-Kay Luk and Barry D. Steben, 28–30. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
——. “Wuwei (Non-Action): From Laozi to Huainanzi.” Taoist Resources 3 (1991): 41–56.
Loewe, Michael. “Huang Lao Thought and the Huainanzi.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd ser., 4, no. 3 (1994): 377–95.
Major, John S. “Animals and Animal Metaphors in Huainanzi.” Asia Major, 3rd ser., 21, no. 1 (2008): 133–51.
——. “Astrology in the Huai-nan Tzu and Some Related Texts.” Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Bulletin, no. 8 (1980): 20–31.
——. “Celestial Cycles and Mathematical Harmonics in the Huainanzi.” Extrême-orient / Extrême-occident 16 (1994): 121–34 .
——. “The Five Phases, Magic Squares, and Schematic Cosmography.” In Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology: Papers Presented at the Workshop on Classical Chinese Thought Held at Harvard University, August 1976, edited by Henry Rosemont Jr., 133–66. Journal of the American Academy of Religion Studies, vol. 50, no. 2. 1984. Reprint, Charleston, S.C.: Booksurge, 2006
——. “Numerology in the Huai-nan Tzu.” In Sagehood and Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China, ed. Kidder Smith, 3–10. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Asian Studies Program, 1990.
——. “Substance, Process, Phase: Wuxing in the Huainanzi.” In Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham, edited by Henry Rosemont Jr., 67–78. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Press, 1991.
Mou Zhongjian . “Huainanzi dui Lüshi chunqiu de jicheng he fahui” Daojia wenhua yanjiu , no. 14 (1998): 338–52.
Murray, Judson. “The Consummate Dao: The ‘Way’ (Dao) and ‘Human Affairs’ (shi) in the Huainanzi.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 2007.
——. “A Study of ‘Yaolüe’ , ‘A Summary of the Essentials’: Understanding the Huainanzi Through the Point of View of the Author of the Postface.” Early China 29 (2004): 45–110.
Pan Yuting . “Lun shang Huanglao yu Huainanzi” Daojia wenhua yanjiu , no. 1 (1992): 214–29.
Parker, E. H. “Hwai-Nan-Tsz, Philosopher and Prince.” New China Review, no. 1 (1919): 505–21.
——. “Some More of Hwai-Nan-Tsz’s Ideas.” New China Review, no. 2 (1920): 551–62.
Pfizmaier, August. “Die Könige von Hoai-Nan aus dem Hause Han.” Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, no. 39 (1862): 575–618.
Pokora, Timoteus. “The Notion of Coldness in Huai-Nan-Tzu.” Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, no. 125 (1979): 69–74.
Puett, Michael. “Aligning and Orienting the Cosmos: Anthropomorphic Gods and Theomorphic Humans in the Huainanzi.” Chapter 7 in To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divination in Early China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
——. “Violent Misreadings: The Hermeneutics of Cosmology in the Huainanzi.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 72 (2000): 29–47.
Queen, Sarah A. “The Creation and Domestication of the Techniques of Lao-Zhuang: Anecdotal Narrative and Philosophical Argumentation in Huainanzi Chapter 12, ‘Reponses of the Way’ (Dao Ying ).” Asia Major, 3rd ser., 21, no. 1 (2008): 201–47.
——. “Inventories of the Past: Re-Thinking the ‘School’ Affiliation of the Huainanzi.” Asia Major, 3 rd ser., 14, no. 1 (2001): 51–72.
Rosemont, Henry, Jr. Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology: Papers Presented at the Workshop on Classical Chinese Thought Held at Harvard University, August 1976. Journal of the American Academy of Religion Studies, vol. 50, no. 2. 1984. Reprint, Charleston, S.C.: Booksurge, 2006.
Roth, Harold D. “The Early Taoist Concept of Shen: A Ghost in the Machine?” In Sagehood and Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China, edited by Kidder Smith, 11–32. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Asian Studies Program, 1990.
——. “Evidence for Stages of Meditation in Early Taoism.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60, no. 2 (1997): 295–314.
——. “Nature and Self-Cultivation in Huainanzi’s “Original Way.” In Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont Jr., edited by Marthe Chandler and Ronnie Littlejohn, 270–92. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008.
——. “Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Taoistic Thought.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 51, no. 2 (1991): 599–650.
——. “Who Compiled the Chuang Tzu?” In Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to Angus C. Graham, edited by Henry Rosemont Jr., 79–128. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Press, 1991.
Shen Jinhua . Huainanzi jianyan lu . Beijing: Beijing guangbo xueyuan chubanshe, 1992.
Van Ess, Hans. “Argument and Persuasion in the First Chapter of Huainanzi and Its Use of Particles.” Oriens Extremus 45 (2005–2006): 255–70.
Vankeerberghen, Griet. “Een Vertaling en Studie van Hoofdstuk 21 ‘Yao Lüeh’ van Huai Nan Tzu” [A Translation and Study of Chapter 21 ‘Yaolüe’ of Huainanzi]. Master’s thesis, University of Leuv
en, 1990.
——. “Emotions and the Actions of the Sage: Recommendations for an Orderly Heart in the ‘Huainanzi.’” Philosophy East and West 45, no. 4 (1995): 527–44. [Special issue: Comparative Philosophy in the Low Countries]
——. The Huainanzi and Liu An’s Claim to Moral Authority. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Xu Fuguan . “Liu An de shidai yu Huainanzi” . Dalu zazhi 47, no. 6 (1973): 1–38.
Yang Youli . Xin Daojia honglie ji: “Huainanzi” yu Zhongguo wenhua . Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2001.
Zhang Guohua . “Huainan honglie yu Chunqiu fanlu” Daojia wenhua yanjiu , no. 6 (1995): 200–16.
Essential Textual and Historical Studies Before 1960
Centre Franco-Chinoise d’études sinologiques. Huainanzi tongjian . Beijing: Zhongfa hanxue yanjiusuo, 1944.
Kimura Eiichi . “Koshohon Enanji ‘Heiryakuhen’ ni tsuite” Shinagaku 10, no. 2 (1940): 127–37; no. 3 (1941): 181–212.
Kuraishi Takeshiro . “Enanji no rekishi” Shinagaku 3 (1923): 334–68, 421–51.
Lao Ge (1820–1864). Dushu zazhi . 1878. Reprint, Taibei: Guangwen, 1970.
Liu Wendian . Sanyu zhaji . 1935–1939. Reprint, Taibei: Shijie, 1963.
Lu Xinyuan . Yigutang ji . 1862 [reprinted in the collection Qianyuan congji ]. Facsimile reprint of 1898 edition. Taibei: Taibei gufeng chubanshe, 1970.
Qian Tang (1735–1790). Huainan “Tianwen” xun buzhu . 1828; preface, 1788. Reprint, Hubei: Chongwen, 1877. [Included as an appendix in the Xinbianzhuzi jicheng reprint of the Liu Wendian critical edition]