caa a22 4500 386397546 CHVBK 20180307112143.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0362502800002583 doi S0362502800002583 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0362502800002583 Wagner Rudolf G. The Wang Bi Recension of the Laozi [Elektronische Daten] [Rudolf G. Wagner] There are seventy-nine places in Wang Bi's Laozi zhu where the text of the Laozi transmitted over this commentary differs from quotations of it contained within the commentary. Building on the textual studies of Professor Shima Kunio, this essay demonstrates that the readings given in the commentary are supported in practically every case by a series of early quotations and texts of the Laozi, such as the Mawangdui manuscripts and the "Old Manuscripts” that form the basis of Fu Yi and Fan Yingyuan's editions. A comparison of all of these differences shows that Wang Bi's original text must have belonged to the same broad textual family as these early manuscripts, being most closely linked to the two "Old Manuscripts” and less directly related to the Mawangdui manuscripts. In most of the these cases, the textus receptus has been supplanted by the reading transmitted through the Heshang Gong commentary. Consequently, it is now necessary to replace the textus receptus of Wang Bi's Laozi with a conflated version of the two "Old Manuscripts” and, in some cases, the Mawangdui manuscripts. Copyright © Society for the Study of Early China 1989 Early China Cambridge University Press 14(1989), 27-54 0362-5028 14<27 1989 14 EAC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0362502800002583 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0362502800002583 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wagner Rudolf G. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Early China Cambridge University Press 14(1989), 27-54 0362-5028 14<27 1989 14 EAC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge