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

Confucius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1647922895 ISBN 13: 9781647922894

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2026

Synopsis

The Chinese Masters set offers new hardcover editions of four classical Chinese philosophy books: Confucius: Analects, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings, and The Daodejing of Laozi. 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 emulating the shuqian, the traditional Chinese identification label affixed to book covers. The books are packaged in a dark blue casewrapped box coated in a velvet-touch matte lamination.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1647922895
• ISBN 13: 9781647922894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1096