CHUANG TZU The author's name is modernized from Chuang Tzŭ to the common spelling Chuang Tzu, or Zhuangzi in Pinyin.

Zhuangzi original Chinese: 莊子

Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer

TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE

HERBERT A. GILES

Her Britannic Majesty’s original: H. B. M.'s Consul at Tamsui Tamsui is a port city in northern Taiwan where Giles was stationed.

The Chinese character for "Tao" original: 道; meaning "The Way," "The Path," or the fundamental principle of the universe in Chinese philosophy is centered on the page, surrounded by a circular burst of radiating black lines, creating a sunburst or halo effect.

LONDON

BERNARD QUARITCH

1889