- Hardcover: 103 pages
- Publisher: Foreign Languages Pr; 2 edition (January 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 7119015710
- ISBN-13: 978-7119015712
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,182,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
quite a book! this version is both strong and weak
Mar 11 2001
Format:Hardcover
this was the first version of the tao te ching i came across, and i bought it in china in 1994. it took me a while to make any sense of what lao zi was saying, and now i think it makes a little more sense to me... since then, i've gotten other translations of this book and have something to compare it to.
i've kept this version because i felt it was a pretty raw translation, and not overly interpretive or flowery, which can be good. i feel, however, that the English of the author was not too hot and at times comes across as painfully wooden. the poems themselves, however, retain their beauty and power, and sometimes i wonder if the poor English of the author might not be an advantage...
as for the author's explanatory writings about the poems, my lord, it's not even worth reading. it's like he's written a bad mini-book report on each poem, and when tries to make sense of what the poems are about, he doesn't convince me that he gets the point of it at all. i'd hate to sit in a classroom with him! and i have a distinct feeling lao zi would also!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A mediocre treatment of this classic piece of world thought
Nov 17 2001
Format:Hardcover
As a student (among other things) of Chinese philosophy, I came across this translation/exegesis looking for a decent English translation. The translation itself is reasonable and accurate. If you read only this, you'll do fine. However, the explanations and introductory parts are very shallow and uninteresting (not to mention seriously lacking). If meant as a book for the general public, it does Lao Zi discredit. If meant as an academic publication, its treatment of the material is mediocre and unhelpful. My recommendation: find a copy without interpretation and figure it out yourself. It's beautiful and is meant to be understood intuitively to begin with! But the book itself (not this version) _is_ a must-read.
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