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This work, San zi yin yi (Explanations of the three masters), was edited and published by Min Qiji (born 1580), a successful Ming publisher who used, for the first time in 1616, chromatographic printing with red and black ink. Later he worked with five colors, and specialized in printing books of classics, histories, and works of philosophy and literature, including drama and fiction. This work, consisting of writing by the three philosophers, Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Liezi, is printed in red and black. Laozi is believed to have lived in the ...