"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.
- ISBN10 9622014674
- ISBN13 9789622014671
- Publish Date 31 December 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2011
- Publish Country HK
- Imprint The Chinese University Press
- Edition Rev ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 325
- Language English
- URL http://columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/978962/9789622014671.HTM