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Tae Hyun KIM, “Other Laozi Parallels in the Hanfeizi” Sino-Platonic Papers, 199 (March 2010) mainly aims to compare early Laozi parallels, there is not room to discuss this important question, i.e., what are the textual and philosophical relationships among the excavated texts. But one must remain aware of the critical point that, in studying the GD or MWD documents, one should not attempt to categorize the texts by applying conventionally established concepts like Confucianism and Daoism. This approach can give some alternative explanations in the study of the Laozi. and “Daoist” prevents researchers from finding the philosophical and philological breakthroughs that the GD bundles could possibly provide. 32
Tae Hyun KIM, “Other Laozi Parallels in the Hanfeizi” Sino-Platonic Papers, 199 (March 2010) 3. Textual Characteristics of the Laozi Parallels quoted in the Jie Lao and Yu Lao chapters Now I will examine quotations from the Jie Yu Lao, the main concern of this paper, and clarify their significant textual variations and meanings, comparing them with other extant early Laozi PLs, the GD and the MWD. This shows that the quotations in the JYL were from two earlier PLs of the Laozi, and that the ancient PLs were in transition from the source stage, such as was the GD PL, gradually evolving to the arranged stage in the JYL quotations, and to thee mature stage for independent texts in the MWD PL. By this method, I try to show how the Laozi PLs were philosophically and textually developed, and what concerns their compilers had. In most philological studies of the early Laozi PLs, the textual significance of the Laozi PL in the JYL has not been understood impartially. To clear up this misunderstanding, it is necessary to accurately determine what kind of quotations exist, and what problems and possibilities arise from them. Accordingly, in the following, I present all the quotations that are included in the JYL, as reconstructed by myself, 64 and give several tables comparing them with other early PLs. 65 This comparison leads to examining their significant textual differences and drawing some textual and philosophical conclusions from them. The reconstruction of quotations in the JYL consists of several simple stages: identifying the sentences that can be regarded as quotations from a text that cannot be definitely designated 64 I use Chen Qiyou’s modern edition as the text of the Hanfeizi for this paper: Chen Qiyou 陳奇猷, Hanfeizi xinjiaozhu 韓非子新校注 (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji, 2006), vol. 2. 65 For comparison, I mainly use manuscript A as a representative of the MWD Laozi. However, when unable to read it because of its physical deterioration, I replace it with manuscript B, without adding any special mark to indicate the replacement. Also, for translating ancient Chinese characters from the MWD and GD into modern Chinese equivalents, I am basically indebted to the works of Gao Ming and Li Ling. While all numberings of the GD parallels in this paper are Li Ling’s, I do not follow the numbering by Gao Ming, who gives the section numbers of the Wang Bi redaction. Instead, I just order the sections as they are. See Gao Ming 高明, Boshu Laozi xiaozhu 帛書老子校注 (Beijing: Zhonghua, 1982); Li Ling 李零, Guodian chujian jiaoduji 郭店楚簡校讀記 (Beijing: Beijing Daxue, 2002). 33
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