Oscar Wilde’s Reading of Zhuangzi in ‘A Chinese Sage’

In 1889 the sinologist Herbert A. Giles published his English translation Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer. The following year, Oscar Wilde wrote his long book review ‘A Chinese Sage’. This article analyses Wilde’s review and explores how Giles’ translation influences Wilde’s unders...

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Subtitles:Special Forum on Taoism and Western Literature
Authors: Jiang, Jing (Author) ; Li, Chengjian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 477-485
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
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