Dao De Jing in Clear English: Including a Step by Step Translation?

[wandelaar]

As we can read in the above link one of our Bums has published a new Tao Te Ching translation. See:

https://www.amazon.com/Dao-Jing-Clear-English-Translation/dp/173206380X

 

Any comments on this new book?

 

 

[Marblehead]

I had a look.  Looks good.  I'm sure I will be spending more time with it later.

 

[dawei]

I reviewed chapter by chapter for them, down to whether they used a wrong character and to consider word meaning.  

 

It has a novel layout and I would say it is the closest to a 'student-study focus' in a way.   Each chapter starts with just the english on the left and a chinese calligraphy on the right.  Then the next pages do what we've done at TDB when studying it:  It has three lines as:

 

 道可道，非常道

dào kě dào fēi cháng dào

Path | can be | spoken | not | eternal/everlasting path 

 

After the chapters are some notes and some of the more important words in a glossary.

 

I actually have a few copies and would be willing to mail up to 3 out if someone wants to cover shipping.

[wandelaar]

I like to buy the book, but I live in the Netherlands. I suppose you live in the US? In that case it would probably be more practical for me to buy the book somewhere in Europe...

 

I also see on Amazon that the book comes in two versions: one with 378 pages and one with 116 pages...

[Basil]

This looks like a fascinating new edition.

 

Dawei, does this offer still stand?

 

On 10/1/2018 at 10:32 AM, dawei said:

I actually have a few copies and would be willing to mail up to 3 out if someone wants to cover shipping.

 

[dawei]

1 hour ago, Basil said:

This looks like a fascinating new edition.

 

Dawei, does this offer still stand?

 

 

 

Yes, and welcome back

 

I'll send an email to your registered email. 

[Basil]

Thank you and thank you.