China: 'Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly'. Ink on silk album leaf painting by Lu Chin, mid-16th century. Zhuangzi was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, a period corresponding to the philosophical summit of Chinese thought - the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing - in part or in whole - a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi. His name Zhuangzi ('Master Zhuang', with Zi being an honorific) is sometimes spelled Zhuang Tze, Zhuang Zhou, Chuang Tsu, Chuang Tzu, Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse or Chuangtze.

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