The Chinese Masters Four-Book Boxed Set: Confucius, Mengzi, Zhuangzi, Laozi

The Chinese Masters offers four premium hardcover editions of classical Chinese philosophy in English translation housed in a beautiful case-wrapped box. Titles included:

• Confucius: Analects With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
  Translated by Edward Slingerland

• Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
  Translated, with Introduction, by Bryan W. Van Norden

• Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings
  Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Brook Ziporyn

• The Daodejing of Laozi
  Translated, with Commentary, by Philip J. Ivanhoe

Each 6" x 9" volume features smyth sewn bindings, gold-colored endsheets, and 55# natural-colored paper. The covers feature debossed and gloss-laminated book title squares to emulate the shuqian, the traditional Chinese identification label affixed to book covers. The books are packaged in a box with dark blue printed casewraps coated in a velvet-touch matte lamination.

Paperback and eBook editions of all four books are also available from Hackett, including as instructor examination copies.

About the Translators:

Philip J. Ivanhoe was, most recently, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. He is now retired.

Edward Slingerland is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia. 

Bryan W. Van Norden is the James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy and in Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College and Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University. 

Brook Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago.