PREFACE 9
PROLOGUE:WHAT IS DANCING? 11
CHAPTER Ⅰ.ZHUANGZI THE PERSON AND THE BOOK OF ZHUANGZI 12
1．Zhuangzi the Person 12
2．The Book of Zhuangzi 18
CHAPTER Ⅱ.ZHUANGZI'S PHILOSOPHY OF TONG——DAO THROUGHS AS ONE 22
1．Dao is the Ultimate Concern of Chinese Philosophy 22
2．Zhuangzi's Making of a Concept of Tong 24
3．Dao Throughs as One 28
4．Zhuangzi's Notion:Dao Is What Throughs 31
5．Throughness as One Could Be the Alternative to Metaphysical Oneness 36
CHAPTER Ⅲ.THE INNER CHAPTERS 40
1．Xiao Yao You——Dancing with the World 40
2．Equalizing Things and Opinions 46
3．The Nucleus of Nurturing Life 73
4．Being in the Marketplace 79
5．Flourishing of Virtue 93
6．The Greatest Guidance 104
7．Idealistic Rulers of a Nation 117
CHAPTER Ⅳ.SELECTED ALLEGORIES FROM ALL CHAPTERS 124
The Man in Miaogu Mountain 125
Three in the Morning 127
How Would I Know 127
The Character of a Shadow 129
The Weeping Lady 130
Is There Winner 132
To Hide Heaven Under Heaven 134
Friends 135
Shaman Jixian——Four Stages of Cultivation of Qi 138
The Empty Boat 141
Avoiding Machinate One's Heart bv Using Machines 142
What Cannot Be Read in Books 145
The Sophist Encountering Zhuangzi 147
Talking to a Skull 151
Danger of Indulgence 152
How Many Confucians Are There 153
In Between Worth and Worthless——Thing Things Without Being Thinged by Things 155
Hunchback's Art of Catching Cicadas 157
Ferryman's Dao 158
Gamecocks 159
Swimming in Accordance to the Dao of Water 160
Comfort of Forgetting What Is Comfortable 161
The Old Man's Fishing of no Fishing 162
Know Dao and Know-not Dao 164
No-thing and No-nothing or Nonexistence and No-nonexistence 166
The Talented Monkey 167
The Zhuangzi thus Characterized 168
CHAPTER Ⅴ.ZHUANGZI'S INFLUENCE IN CHINESE HISTORY 170
Philosophical Daoism 170
Religious Daoism 176
New Daoism,or"Xuanxue" 179
Confucianism 182
Chinese Buddhism 186
Other Schools of Thought 191
Chinese Art 191
Zhuangzi in Modern China 194
Zhuangzi in the World 195
EPILOGUE:RESPONSE TO YUNFEI 197
SELECTED REFERENCES 200