The Chinese Masters Four-Book Boxed Set: Confucius, Mengzi, Zhuangzi, Laozi

The Chinese Masters set offers new hardcover editions of four classical Chinese philosophy books: Confucius: Analects, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings, and The Daodejing of Laozi. Each 6“ x 9“ volume features smyth-sewn bindings, gold-colored endsheets, and 55# natural-colored paper. The covers feature debossed and gloss laminated book-title squares emulating the shuqian, the traditional Chinese identification label affixed to book covers. The books are packaged in a dark blue casewrapped box coated in a velvet-touch matte lamination.

Philip J. Ivanhoe was, most recently, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. He is now retired. 

Edward Slingerland is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia. 

Bryan W. Van Norden is the James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy and in Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College and Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University. 

Brook Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago.