Dao de jing. (English) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Dao de jing. (English) Thursday, August 6 2009.

• Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the Chinese text found in no other edition, by furnishing one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters. The appearance and sounds of the Chinese character displayed, enhance the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the many different ways it can be translated into English.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Dao de jing. (English) Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lao-Tzu: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Stanley Lombardo: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Stephen Addiss: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Laozi: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Burton Watson: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Dao de jing. (English) Friday, July 17 2009.

• Traditional accounts of Chinese history customarily begin by describing certain ancient rulers such as the Yellow Emperor or Yao and Shun, paragons of virtue and wisdom, who first taught the arts of civilization to the Chinese people.