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  • “The Date and Composition of the Lieh-tzu,” Asia Major 8 (2): 139-198.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • Lieh-tzu, 1960, The Book of Lieh-tzu: A Classic of the Tao, trans.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • Taoist philosopher and TRADITIONAL author of the Book of Lieh-tzu which argues that because life is fleeting and ends in death it is futile, therefore, HEDONISM is the only possible response.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • It is passing strange that the great Taoist philosophers Lieh

    Lunheng 1962

  • Lieh Tse of the 5th cent. b.c., who gives the best exposition of it, seems to refer it to the sages of former times.

    Lunheng 1962

  • This question has already been broached by Lieh Tse V, 9 who introduces two lads disputing about it, the one saying that the Sun must be nearer at sunrise, because he is larger then, the other retorting that at noon he is hottest, and therefore must be nearest at noon.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Some of his stories are told in Lieh Tse likewise with nearly the same words, but it does not follow, that they must be quoted from Lieh Tse, for such narrations are often found in several authors, one copying from the other without acknowledging his source.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Lieh Tse and Chuang Tse are hardly anything else than collections of detached aphorisms, each chapter embracing the most heterogeneous subjects, each chapter of the Lun-hêng is a real essay, the theme of which is given first and adhered to throughout.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Shuo yüan, Hsin hsü, and Lieh-nü-chuan, in all three of which occur passages borrowed directly from HSWC.

    Han Shih Wai Chuan 1952

  • "How is it," Hsiang-yün asked, "that there was some one in the Lieh state called Lin Hsiang-ju, and that during the Han dynasty there lived again another person, whose name was Ssu Ma Hsiang-ju?"

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

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