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Leo S. Chang and Yu Feng. The Four Political Treatises of the Yellow Emperor. Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, no. 15. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1998. 230 pp. Paperback $20.00, ISBN 0824820088. This book is the second English translation to appear within a year of a group of Huang-Lao School texts unearthed in 1973 from a Han-period tomb at Mawangdui in Hunan Province. The texts treated here are the same as those translated by Robin Yates in his Five Lost Classics, a volume reflecting exceptionally good scholarship.1 While it is natural to ask whether the publication of a second full translation is warranted, Leo S. Chang and Yu Feng have produced an approach so different from Yates' that the value of their alternative rendering is unquestionable. Moreover, the interpretive framework of their analysis has provocative implications for our understanding of early traditions of philosophy and statecraft, and conveys with new clarity the reason why the discovery of these texts was an intellectual landmark. The basic story of these texts is now well known. Early sources frequently refer to the Huang-Lao School, and identify it as the dominant ideology of the early Han dynasty
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Sep 1, 1999
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