"Tao Te Ching," also commonly known as "Lao Tzu," is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called "Wang Pi" text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the "Lao Tzu," dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui ...
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"Tao Te Ching," also commonly known as "Lao Tzu," is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called "Wang Pi" text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the "Lao Tzu," dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui in December 1973. The result is a text with a fuller use of particles, free from the scribal errors and editorial tampering of subsequent ages.
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As New in As New jacket. Book (Entirely New Translation from recent discoveries in Ma-Wang-Tu Manuscript) Translated, Annotated with Afterword by Victor H. Mair. Sturdy book, cream cloth spine, light marbled boards, bright gilt lettering on spine. DJ glossy purple front and spine, a woodcut of path through mountains with light yellow building at center front, cream back with praise from Richard Eserhart, Eliot Weinberger, and others. DJ and book, both As New.