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tao te ching
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Product details
- ISBN 9781324123446
- Weight: 182g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty of the Chinese original. Composed of eighty-one short poems written by the sage Laozi in 400 BC, Dao De Jing is one of the pillars of Chinese thought. Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee and poet and scholar Yun Wang illuminate Dao De Jing as a unified work of art. This revelatory and faithful translation–presented alongside the original Chinese text–reveals its enduring teachings in their profound simplicity, subtlety and balance.
Li–Young Lee is a poet and translator. He received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, among other awards. Lee lives in Chicago. Yun Wang, a poet and cosmologist, is the author of three volumes of poetry. Raised in rural southwest China, she lives in California.
