Lie Yukou
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Lie Yukou (
: Lieh4-tzŭ3; lit. 'Master Lie').Early life
Lie Yukou was born in the
Henan Province
.
History
There is little historical evidence of Lie Yukou as a
Catalogue of Ch‘ien Lung
's Library, who represent the cream of Chinese scholarship in the eighteenth century.In the above quote Mr. Lionel Giles may have been refuting his father
Herbert Allen Giles
, who wrote of Lie Yukou or Lieh-Tzu in his translation of Chuang Tzu. Here is his quote which runs as follows: The extent of the actual mischief done by this " Burning of the Books " has been greatly exaggerated. Still, the mere attempt at such a holocaust gave a fine chance to the scholars of the later Han dynasty (A.D. 25-221), who seem to have enjoyed nothing so much as forging, if not the whole, at any rate portions, of the works of ancient authors. Some one even produced a treatise under the name of Lieh Tzu, a philosopher mentioned by Chuang Tzu, not seeing that the individual in question was a creation of Chuang Tzu's brain!
References
Further reading
- Balfour, Frederic H. Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook. London: Trubner. 1887. Reprint. 2001.
- Giles, Lionel, tr. Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh-Tzŭ. London: Wisdom of the East. 1912.
- Giles, Herbert A., tr. Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer. London: Bernard Quaritch 1889.
External links
- Lieh-tzu: A Biographical Note, Taoism Initiation Page
- Taoist teachings from the book of Lieh Tzŭ, Giles' translation at Wikisource
- Works by Liezi at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Liezi at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Lieh-tzu at Internet Archive
- Works by Liezi at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
