Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient by A.C. Graham

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—Philosophical Review

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A. C. Graham (1919–1991) is taken into account by way of many to were the top global authority on chinese language concept, grammar, and textual feedback and the best translator of chinese language on the grounds that Waley. He taught on the college of Oriental and African stories, London college (where he used to be Professor of Classical chinese language till 1988) Yale, Ann Arbor, Tsing Hua, Brown, and Honolulu. He was once a Fellow of the British Academy. His a variety of works comprise Two chinese language Philosophers (1958), Poems of the overdue T'ang (1965), Chuang-tzu: the Seven internal Chapters (1981), and Studies in chinese language Philosophical Literature (1986).