Cong “Laozi” de daoti yinyu dao “Zhuangzi” de tidao xushi: you benyaming de shuoshu ren quanshi Zhuang Zhou de wanyan zhexue. (Chinese)

Generally speaking, Taoism strongly criticizes the power and ideology of language. Dao cannot be spoken about because of its transcendent nature. However, Daoism is not completely negative about language. In my opinion, Daoists exhibit at least four attitudes toward language:(1) absolute silence,(2)poetic metaphor,(3)story narration, and (4)conceptual dialectic. In this paper, I first discuss why and how Laozi uses poetic metaphor to reveal Dao. Second, I explore the process by which Laozi’s poetic metaphors are transformed into Zhuangzi’s stories. That is to say, the entity of Dao in Laozi becomes stories of seeking Dao in “Zhuangzi.” Narrative skill is a breakthrough linguistic style in “Zhuangzi” that did not exist in “Laozi.” In order to explain the significance of narrative philosophy, this article analyzes Walter Benjamin’s insights about narrators and narratives. Finally, I conclude that Zhuangzi and his students are great narrators and the book of Zhuangzi is a collection of stories about Dao. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies is the property of National Tsing Hua University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)