Huainanzi (The Writings of the Masters of Huainan)淮南子
Twenty-two chapters fully translated. The graph counts were matched against the source text chapter by chapter, and all twenty-two chapters were confirmed to differ by not a single graph. ★There were twenty-one chapters in all, but the 「淮南鴻烈解敘」 (敘目), which Gao You (高誘) of the Later Han put at the front when he added his commentary, was attached at the back as the twenty-second. It is not the writing of the Huainanzi but a commentator's foreword; still, Liu An's life and the course of this book are all there in it, so there was no reason to leave it out. ★At eleven places the source text sets down two readings side by side as 「another edition has this」 (ten in Tianwen, one in Taizu). The first was taken as the text and the second let go. One note is carried with it — 「影」 written beside 「景」 in Yuandao, the place where it is made clear that 景 is the old graph for the shadow, 影. There are ten places worn past reading, marked □, and they were not filled in. Even a place that could be filled from the current edition, such as 「獸窮則□」, was left as it stands — if filled places and unfilled places are mixed, it becomes impossible to know how far the source text goes. At two places, though, it was not a missing graph but a broken mark, so these were set right by the current edition — the よ in 「恩接而よ怛生」 of Miucheng is 憯, and the 怴A in 「而國不亡怴A未必無禮也」 of Qisu is 者，. The 「〈月曷〉下迫頤」 of Jingshen is the source text piecing a graph together, so it is left as it is. The quotation marks are mixed between 「」 and “” (in Binglüe, Zhushu and elsewhere), so they were settled on 「」. At the head of Fanlun, Shuoshan and Shuolin a volume-title line such as 「卷十三氾論訓」 is mixed into the text, and these were cleared away. ★On the division into paragraphs — the chapters that the source text divides by blank lines were followed as they are. Ten chapters, among them Qisu, Fanlun, Shuoshan and Shuolin, have no divisions in the source text, and five to ten thousand graphs stood as one block. They were divided at around four hundred graphs, after a 「。」 and before 故, 夫, 是故, 今, 昔, 由此 or 凡. This division is not the source text's but was made here.
- Xumu — Preface敘目 · 3 passages · 871 Chinese characters
- Yaolüe — A Summary of the Essentials要略 · 30 passages · 3,605 Chinese characters
- Taizu — The Grand Totality泰族訓 · 30 passages · 9,542 Chinese characters
- Xiuwu — Cultivating Effort脩務訓 · 15 passages · 5,295 Chinese characters
- Renjian — The Human World人間訓 · 45 passages · 11,248 Chinese characters
- Shuolin — A Forest of Sayings說林訓 · 15 passages · 5,366 Chinese characters
- Shuoshan — A Mountain of Sayings說山訓 · 18 passages · 5,807 Chinese characters
- Binglüe — Military Strategy兵略訓 · 26 passages · 8,181 Chinese characters
- Quanyan — Sayings Explained詮言訓 · 21 passages · 6,197 Chinese characters
- Fanlun — Broad Discourses氾論訓 · 29 passages · 8,715 Chinese characters
- Daoying — Responses of the Way道應訓 · 55 passages · 9,963 Chinese characters
- Qisu — Equalizing Customs齊俗訓 · 27 passages · 7,780 Chinese characters
- Miucheng — Profound Precepts繆稱訓 · 17 passages · 5,957 Chinese characters
- Zhushu — The Ruler's Techniques主術訓 · 36 passages · 10,474 Chinese characters
- Benjing — The Fundamental Norm本經訓 · 13 passages · 3,986 Chinese characters
- Jingshen — Quintessential Spirit精神訓 · 17 passages · 4,593 Chinese characters
- Lanming — Surveying Obscurities覽冥訓 · 14 passages · 3,136 Chinese characters
- Shize — Seasonal Rules時則訓 · 19 passages · 5,645 Chinese characters
- Dixing — Terrestrial Forms墜形訓 · 22 passages · 3,961 Chinese characters
- Tianwen — Celestial Patterns天文訓 · 94 passages · 7,665 Chinese characters
- Chuzhen — Activating the Genuine俶真訓 · 27 passages · 5,377 Chinese characters
- Yuandao — Originating in the Way原道訓 · 22 passages · 6,199 Chinese characters