英文摘要
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Fan Gengyan (1894-1960) is a little known scholar in the early Republic of China. He had annotated many ancient Chinese classics such as I Ching, Mozi, Lüshi chunqiu, etc. Among all his works, the studies of Zhuangzi may be the most representative. Fan was interested in it since a yang age. Even during the Anti-Japanese War, he kept researching and writing many manuscripts that were published as Zhuangzi Zhangzhi, Zhuangzi Guyi Quangao, and Zhuangzi Yin. His works based on explanations of words and text interpretation. Influenced by Zhang Taiyan(1869-1936), Fan had a tendency to interpret Zhuangzi with Buddhism. One of the characteristics in his explanatory notes is to stress the similarity between Zhuangzi and Buddhism and the difference among Zhuangzi, Confucianism, and Laozi. Another characteristic is that Fan believed the main concern of Zhuangzi was to help people to deal with the complicated and difficult situations in their lives. He emphasized that Zhuangzi’s concern about how to live smoothly did not mean that one should go through all sorts of indignities. Besides, he tried to explore two different levels of “zhi (知)”- knowledge and truth. Although Zhuangzi was opposed to the pursuit of knowledge, he was neither opposed to the development of artifacts, nor in favor of ignorance. As for “truth”, it is self-evident, and there is no need to argue about it. Fan’s studies of Zhuangzi have distinct characteristics of the times both in the method and concept and are really worth further exploration.
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