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Tao Te Ching (Laozi)
'The Way that can be spoken is not the constant Way.' In eighty-one short chapters the Tao Te Ching teaches yielding, simplicity, emptiness and rule by not ruling. It is the most translated Chinese book in the world. Each chapter is a short, enigmatic poem that can be read in minutes and pondered for a lifetime. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. It is short enough to read in an evening and deep enough to return to for years, and the English keeps the paradoxes and stories intact. The early Chinese thinkers argued about the same questions we still ask: how to live, how to govern, what is natural and what can be known.
