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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Guide to Pronunciation | |
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| Map | |
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| The Summer Cicada and the Wonder Tortoise | |
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| The Little Sparrow's Small Happiness | |
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| Hui Shi's Giant Gourd | |
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| The Song Family's Secret Formula | |
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| The Useless Shu Tree | |
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| The Tattooed Yue People | |
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| The Music of the Earth | |
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| Zhao Wen Quits the Zither | |
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| Does Wang Ni Know? | |
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| Is Xi Shi Really Beautiful? | |
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| Li Ji's Tears | |
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| Zhang Wuzi's Dream | |
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| Shadows Talking | |
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| The Dream of the Butterfly | |
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| Three at Dawn and Four at Dusk | |
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| Hui Shi Leans against a Tree | |
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| The Cook Carves Up a Cow | |
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| Passing on the Flame | |
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| The Caged Pheasant | |
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| Like A Mantis Stopping a Cart | |
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| The Horse Lover | |
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| The Earth Spirit's Tree | |
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| A Tree's Natural Life Span | |
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| The Freak | |
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| Oil Burns Itself Out | |
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| The Tiger Trainer | |
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| Toeless Shu | |
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| Nature the Superhero | |
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| Forgetting the Dao | |
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| Zi Sang Questions His Fate | |
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| Digging a Canal in the Ocean Floor | |
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| Are a Duck's Legs Too Short? | |
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| The Lost Goat | |
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| Bandits Have Principles, Too | |
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| Good Wine, Bad Wine | |
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| The Yellow Emperor Questions Guangcheng | |
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| Nature's Friend | |
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| The Old Wheelwright | |
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| The Earth and the Sky | |
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| Crows and Seagulls | |
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| Confucius Sees a Dragon | |
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| Don't Ring the Bull's Nose | |
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| The Wind and the Snake | |
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| Courage of the Sage | |
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| The Frog in the Well | |
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| Learning How to Walk in Handan | |
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| A Crow Eating a Dead Rat | |
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| You're Not a Fish | |
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| Zhuangzi Dreams of a Skeleton | |
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| Sea Birds Don't Like Music | |
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| The Drunk Passenger | |
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| Riding with the Dao | |
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| The Sweet Water is Gone First | |
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| Lin Hui Forsakes a Fortune | |
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| Swallows Nest in the Eaves | |
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| The Mantis Getting the Cicada | |
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| Fan Was Never Destroyed | |
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| Knowledge and the Dao | |
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| Gengsang Forsakes Fame | |
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| The Yellow Emperor and the Pasture Boy | |
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| The Stone Mason and the Ying Man | |
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| Two Nations on a Snail's Antennae | |
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| Zhuangzi Borrows Grain | |
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| The Turtle That Could Predict the Future | |
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| Natural Use | |
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| Catch the Fish, Discard the Trap | |
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| Yang Zhu Studies the Dao | |
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| Zi Gong's Snow-White Clothes | |
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| The Bandit Speaks | |
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| Zhuangzi's Three Swords | |
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| Confucius in the Black Forest | |
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| The Man Who Hated His Footprints | |
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| The Man Who Hated His Shadow | |
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| Like a Drifting Boat | |
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| The Dragonslayer | |
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| Shattering the Dragonpearl | |
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| Don't Make Sacrifices | |
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| Zhuangzi on His Deathbed | |
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| Afterword | |