1 Introduction and Overview Contemporary English-language interpretations of the Zhuangzi莊子 typically construe it as a text advocating either a form of mysticism or skepticism.Kim-chong Chong's comprehensive and insightful study,Zhuangzi's Critique of the Confucians:Blinded by the Human,proposes an alternative hermeneutical strategy that adopts the approach initiated by the influential Han dynasty historian,Sima Qian 司馬遷,who,in Chapter 63 0f his Records of the Grand Historian (Taishigong Shu太史公害),writes that Zhuangzi is to be regarded primarily as a critic of Confucianism.