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| | Zhuangzi [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Zhuangzi, or "Master Zhuang" (also known in the Wade-Giles romanization as Chuang-tzu) was, after Laozi, one of the earliest thinkers to contribute to the philosophy that has come to be known as Daojia, or school of the Way. |
 | | During this time, the ostensibly ruling house of Zhou had lost its authority, and there was increasing violence between states contending for imperial power. |
 | | According to Sima Qian, Zhuangzi was born in a village called Meng, in the state of Song; according to Lu Deming, the Sui-Tang dynasty scholar, the Pu River in which Zhuangzi was said to have fished was in the state of Chen which, as Wang Guowei points out, had become a territory of Chu. |
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