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Neither Lord nor Subject by Bao Jingyan
Episode 34

Neither Lord nor Subject by Bao Jingyan

Audible Anarchism

July 13, 20198m 29s

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Full text: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/neither-lord-nor-subject

Pao Ching-yen (zh:鮑敬言) (also transliterated as Bao Jingyan) was a Chinese Taoist libertarian philosopher who lived 405-466 AD.

A successor of Laozi and Zhuang Zhou in the politically-ethically libertarian strain of Taoism, Pao Ching-yen was, according to Etienne Balazs “China’s first political anarchist.” He extended the arguments in the Zhuangzi to deeply critique State authority and power.

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