Speaker:
Chris Fraser
Chris Fraser is Hon-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Late Classical Chinese Thought (Oxford University Press), Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way (Oxford), and The Philosophy of the Mozi (Columbia), among other works. 

Discussants:
Pengbo Liu, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Bentley University
Esther S. Klein, Associate Professor in School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University
Sera Kong, Sera Kong is a Ph.D. student majoring in Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Moderator:
Franklin Perkins, Professor & Editor of Philosophy East and West, Graduate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings is a new translation that draws on traditional and recent scholarship to present the ideas, reasoning, and worldviews of the Zhuangzi writings (4th-2nd century BCE) as clearly and accurately as possible using smooth, natural English. The translation aims for fidelity to the source text at the level of the sentence, rather than the individual word or phrase, seeking to produce flowing, idiomatic English sentences that accurately render the content of the Chinese original. The volume includes extensive explanatory notes aimed at clarifying the text and guiding readers to develop their own understanding. The Introduction summarizes recent philological work that finds the Zhuangzi to be a composite, accretional anthology of short anonymous writings and accordingly advocates a discourse-based approach to interpreting the material, rather than single-author model.