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| Tao-Te-Ching: The Classic Chinese Work in English Translation | 
 enlarge | Author: Lao Tzu
Publisher: Gramercy
Category: Book
Buy New: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0517225344
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51482
EAN: 9780517225349
Publication Date: June 7, 2005
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The TAO-TE-CHING, the ancient Taoist text written by philospher Lao-Tzu in the sixth century B.C., has inspired millions of people from all different backgrounds. This beautiful edition contains Chinese characters alongside the English text and is illustrated with black and white drawings. Commentary from the translators helps to illuminate the ideas discussed in the text so that modern-day readers can fully appreciate the meaning.
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A Complicated Way August 30, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Tao Te Ching (Dao De Qing) has been identified as a treatise on philosophy or on religion or on magic. Many students of the Tao, especially Westerners, claim it can do everything from curing warts to improving your love life. So what is it really? Well the editor of this version of the Tao Te Ching has suggested it offers as a guide to a "spiritual way" and is the esoteric portion of Chinese classical tradition. Lao Tzu the nominal author of this work would probably say that it cannot be understood through words at all. Given this caveat and warned by the editor of this book that a certain spiritual depth is needed to truly appreciate these writings one has to approach the Tao Te Ching with a good deal of caution.
This book is an especially useful version of the work in that it provides a split text with an English translation beside the original text of the Tao Te Ching, but written in modern characters. The English translation provided by Derek Bryce from the original French by Leon Wieger appears quite accurate and the editor notes that Wieger adhered strictly to the classical meanings of the characters. Each of the 81 chapters of the book also incorporates Chinese commentaries on the original text. Now all translation involves some degree of interpretation by the translator particularly when dealing with non-Indo-European languages. Translation of even modern Chinese is a tough chore because it is based on pictographs and has a very different concept of grammar. All this is further complicated by the fact the Wieger's original 1913 translation was in French and Bryce had to then translate it from French to English. This of course doubles the chances for errors, but they seem to be minimal. All things considered this book appears to compare very favorably with more modern translations of this classic work although some would claim the modern tendency to translate the original Chinese into English poetry reflects the original intent of each chapter more accurately.
So will reading this book make one a Tao `master' and ready to set up shop as Chinese sage? Not even close. Understanding the Tao Te Ching this reviewer suspects is the work of a lifetime requiring developing real knowledge of Chinese classical culture and thought patterns. One can get a glimpse of what this astonishing Chinese classic is about from this book, but a real understanding of what Lao Tzu offers requires considerably more effort than this reviewer at least is willing to commit.
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