The Zhuangzi World Studies

Zhuangzi tianxia is the earlist conclusive article concerned about intellectual history of pre-Qin period.It has a significant influence on studying early Chinese intellectual history. .This paper interviews the relative research and excavated texts,then fully discusses he article of Zhuangzi tianxia.This thesis comprises four parts:In the first part , the author briefly interviews other experts' works on tianxia,including the researches on the author and some terms.Accordingly,the significance of this study is illustrated.The second part explains some crucial sentences of Zhuangzi tianxiapian,based on other scholars' researches and the author's idea.The third part discusses about tianxia in details.Firstly it reconstruct the meaning of "daoshuwuhubuzai" from intellectual historical point of view.Secondly,based on the analysis of "neishengwaiwang", the thesis demonstrates the point of view of the author of tianxia towards philosophers in pre-Qin period.Thirdly,it discusses about the school of huishi.Fourthly,the skeleton of the pre-Qin's intellectual development described in tianxia is skimmed,meanwhile combined with relative excavated tests the significance of this study is pointed out .The chapter four summarises the conclusion of the thesis.