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Such translations present a double interes t. Firstly , they were sometimes made by the ablest translators; secondly , the translators , who usually quote Huai-nan Tzu in topical studies , approach the text with a special viewpoint , bringing out its meaning and implications in a more articulate way than when the same text is immersed in a continuous translation. As the fragmentary translations are scattered in a large number of books , 1 wi lI simply list the names of the more important translators , whose works can be found in the Bibliography.
Kandel has expressed this last criticism very articulately in her excellent ‘ Der Versuch einer politischen Restauration 一 Liu An , der König von Huai-nan' , Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur-und Völkerkunde Ostasiens , 113 (1 973) , 34-5 [hereafter ‘ Der König']. Shih chi 118/3082 (Watson , 11 , 368). Society， 但(1 972) ， 11 12 FOlg-SU Jj t'u 何-yi 風俗通義 2/13b. Preface to Huai-nan Tzu , 1b (Wallacker , p. 5). 14 Not only was Liu An a keen collector of books ，的 he was also widely read in the writings of many traditions.
98-9 . j ð ‘ Dδka shisõ' , 64-5. 39 ‘ Huaì Nan Tzu , Phìlosopher and Prìnce' , The New Ch川Ìt附 Review, 1 (1919釗)， 雪引17-8. ;::H叫 4J Le I付raωité I 2 “ “ VIIe du Houai nantseu , pp. 7-8 [戶hereaft甘er Houai natη1 tseu Traαωωiμf汀té VII月几].. 1[hereafter HuaLnanTZU Chapter Fotdpt. 3 'Oer "König' , pp. 38-42. 34 Historical and Textual Studies what had been written is impossible to ascertain. However , if we examine the principal topics outlined in Huai-nan Tzu as well as their disposition and sequence , we cannot but recognize that it is the work of a creative mind; it is highly organized , and is anything but a loose and endless collection of quotations and allusions from a large number of books.