Tao Te Ching (English Wikipedia)

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Waley, Arthur, ed. (1958), The Way and its Power, New York: Grove, ISBN 0-8021-5085-3, OCLC 1151668016 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Watts & Huang (1975), pp. 78–86. Watts, Alan; Huang, Chung-liang (1975), Tao: The Watercourse Way, New York: Pantheon, ISBN 978-0-394-73311-1

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Ellwood, Robert S. (2008), "Lao-tzu (Laozi)", The Encyclopedia of World Religions, Infobase, p. 262, ISBN 978-1-4381-1038-7
Chalmers (1868), p. v The Speculations on Metaphysics, Polity, and Morality of the "Old Philosopher" Lau-tsze, translated by Chalmers, John, London: Trübner, 1868, ISBN 978-0-524-07788-7 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Kohn & al. (1998), p. 1. LaFargue, Michael (1998), Kohn, Livia; LaFargue, Michael (eds.), Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-3600-4
Mair (1990). Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way, translated by Mair, Victor H., New York: Bantam, 1990, ISBN 978-0-307-43463-0.
Bryce & al. (1991), p. ix. Tao-Te-Ching, translated by Bryce, Derek; et al., York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1991, ISBN 978-1-60925-441-4
Chalmers (1868), p. ix. The Speculations on Metaphysics, Polity, and Morality of the "Old Philosopher" Lau-tsze, translated by Chalmers, John, London: Trübner, 1868, ISBN 978-0-524-07788-7 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Cao Feng (20 October 2017), Daoism in Early China: Huang–Lao Thought in Light of Excavated Texts, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-137-55094-1
Tao Te Ching, translated by Lau, D. C., Penguin, 1963, p. 162, ISBN 978-0-14-044131-4, The tentative conclusion we have arrived at concerning Lao Tzu the man is this. There is no certain evidence that he was a historical figure. {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Wagner, Rudolf G. (2000). The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi. Albany: SUNY Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7914-4395-8.
Loewe, Michael (1993), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, Society for the Study of Early China, p. 269, ISBN 978-1-55729-043-4
Loewe, Michael (1993), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, Society for the Study of Early China, p. 269, ISBN 978-1-55729-043-4
Creel (1982), pp. 1–2. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1982, p. 38. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Hansen 2024b; Hansen 2024; Feng 1948, p. 93; Hansen 1992, p. 217. Hansen, Chad (2024b). "Daoism". In Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.). Retrieved 14 June 2025. Hansen, Chad (2024). "Zhuangzi". In Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 ed.). Retrieved 19 February 2024. Feng Youlan (1948). A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83634-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Hansen, Chad (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535076-0.
Tao Te Ching, translated by Lau, D. C., Penguin, 1963, p. 162, ISBN 978-0-14-044131-4 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Creel (1982), pp. 48–51, 93. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1974, p. 189 (Creel's opinion); Creel 1982, p. 50 (citing Jin 1963, pp. 241–246); Liu 2014, p. 248 (citing Jin 1962) Creel, Herrlee Glessner (1974). Shen Pu-hai: Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-12027-0. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books. Jin, Dejian (1963). Sima Qian suo jian shu kao 司馬遷所見書考. Shanghai: Shanghai ren ming chu ban she. OCLC 20065670. Liu, Xiaogan (2014). Xiaogan Liu (ed.). Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy. Springer. ISBN 9789048129270.
Liu 1994, p. 184. Liu Xiaogan (1994). Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.19186. ISBN 9780472901340.
Schwartz, Benjamin Isadore (2009). The World of Thought in Ancient China. Harvard University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-674-04331-2.
Mou 2008, p. 215; Graham 1989, pp. 213, 217. Mou, Bo (2008). Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-24937-4. Graham, A.C. (1989), Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, Open Court, ISBN 978-0-8126-9942-5
Graham 1989, p. 376; Hansen 1992, pp. 345, 205, 208; Schwartz 1985, p. 186; Liu 1994, p. 55. Graham, A.C. (1989), Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, Open Court, ISBN 978-0-8126-9942-5 Hansen, Chad (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535076-0. Schwartz, Benjamin (1985). The World of Thought in Ancient China. Harvard: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-96191-3. Liu Xiaogan (1994). Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.19186. ISBN 9780472901340.
Peerenboom 1993, p. 12-15,17. Peerenboom, Randall P. (1993). Law and Morality in Ancient China: the Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao. SUNY Press. ISBN 9781438415741.
LaFargue & al. (1998), p. 277. LaFargue, Michael; Pas, Julian (1998), "On Translating the Tao-te-ching", in Kohn, Livia; LaFargue, Michael (eds.), Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 277–302, ISBN 978-0-7914-3600-4
Welch, Holmes (1966), Taoism: The Parting of the Way, Beacon Press, p. 7, ISBN 978-0-8070-5973-9
Chalmers (1868). The Speculations on Metaphysics, Polity, and Morality of the "Old Philosopher" Lau-tsze, translated by Chalmers, John, London: Trübner, 1868, ISBN 978-0-524-07788-7 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Chalmers (1868), p. xix. The Speculations on Metaphysics, Polity, and Morality of the "Old Philosopher" Lau-tsze, translated by Chalmers, John, London: Trübner, 1868, ISBN 978-0-524-07788-7 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Kirkland, Russell (2004), Taoism: The Enduring Tradition, Taylor & Francis, p. 1, ISBN 978-0-203-64671-7

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"Tao Te Ching". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

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Zandbergen, Robbert (2022), "The Ludibrium of Living Well", Monumenta Serica, 70 (2): 367–388, doi:10.1080/02549948.2022.2131802, S2CID 254151927
Zhang, Hanmo (2018). "Text, Author, and the Function of Authorship". Authorship and Text-Making in Early China. Library of Sinology, vol. 2. De Gruyter. pp. 26, 30. doi:10.1515/9781501505133-003. ISBN 978-1-5015-0513-3. JSTOR j.ctvbkk21j.5.
Liu 1994, p. 184. Liu Xiaogan (1994). Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.19186. ISBN 9780472901340.
Graham 1989, p. 376; Hansen 1992, pp. 345, 205, 208; Schwartz 1985, p. 186; Liu 1994, p. 55. Graham, A.C. (1989), Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, Open Court, ISBN 978-0-8126-9942-5 Hansen, Chad (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535076-0. Schwartz, Benjamin (1985). The World of Thought in Ancient China. Harvard: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-96191-3. Liu Xiaogan (1994). Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, vol. 65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.19186. ISBN 9780472901340.
Eoyang, Eugene (1990), "Review: Tao Te Ching: A New English Translation by Stephen Mitchell", The Journal of Religion (book review), vol. 70, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, pp. 492–493, doi:10.1086/488454, JSTOR 1205252
Herman, Jonathan R. (1998), "Reviewed work: Tao te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, Ursula K. Le Guin", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 686–689, doi:10.1093/jaarel/66.3.686, JSTOR 1466152
Record, Kirby (March 2022). "On Translating the Dark Enigma: The Tao Te Ching". Translation and Literature. 31 (1): 52–65. doi:10.3366/tal.2022.0494. Retrieved 9 April 2024. The problem of intentional ambiguities in the original work lies at the heart of all poetry translations but is particularly challenging in the case of ideographic texts of antiquity...
Chan, Alan K. L. (October 1993). "Review: On Reading the Tao Te Ching: Mair, Lafargue, Chan". Philosophy East and West. 43 (4): 745–750. doi:10.2307/1399212. JSTOR 1399212. Retrieved 9 April 2024.

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Record, Kirby (March 2022). "On Translating the Dark Enigma: The Tao Te Ching". Translation and Literature. 31 (1): 52–65. doi:10.3366/tal.2022.0494. Retrieved 9 April 2024. The problem of intentional ambiguities in the original work lies at the heart of all poetry translations but is particularly challenging in the case of ideographic texts of antiquity...

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Legge & al. (1891). Müller, Max, ed. (1891), The Tao Teh King, Sacred Books of the East – Sacred Books of China, vol. XXXIX:V, translated by Legge, James, Oxford University Press – via Project Gutenberg.

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Shen, Andrea (22 February 2001). "Ancient script rewrites history". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 9 April 2024.

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Boltz, William G. (1982), "The Religious and Philosophical Significance of the Hsiang erh Lao tzu 相爾老子 in the Light of the Ma-wang-tui Silk Manuscripts", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 45, JSTOR 615191
Creel (1982), pp. 1–2. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1982, p. 38. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Zhang, Hanmo (2018). "Text, Author, and the Function of Authorship". Authorship and Text-Making in Early China. Library of Sinology, vol. 2. De Gruyter. pp. 26, 30. doi:10.1515/9781501505133-003. ISBN 978-1-5015-0513-3. JSTOR j.ctvbkk21j.5.
Creel (1982), pp. 48–51, 93. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1974, p. 189 (Creel's opinion); Creel 1982, p. 50 (citing Jin 1963, pp. 241–246); Liu 2014, p. 248 (citing Jin 1962) Creel, Herrlee Glessner (1974). Shen Pu-hai: Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-12027-0. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books. Jin, Dejian (1963). Sima Qian suo jian shu kao 司馬遷所見書考. Shanghai: Shanghai ren ming chu ban she. OCLC 20065670. Liu, Xiaogan (2014). Xiaogan Liu (ed.). Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy. Springer. ISBN 9789048129270.
Henricks, Robert G. (1979). "Examining the Ma-Wang-Tui Silk Texts of the Lao-Tzu: With Special Note of Their Differences from the Wang Pi Text". T’oung Pao. 65 (4/5): 166–199 at 167. JSTOR 4528176.
Eoyang, Eugene (1990), "Review: Tao Te Ching: A New English Translation by Stephen Mitchell", The Journal of Religion (book review), vol. 70, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, pp. 492–493, doi:10.1086/488454, JSTOR 1205252
Herman, Jonathan R. (1998), "Reviewed work: Tao te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, Ursula K. Le Guin", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 686–689, doi:10.1093/jaarel/66.3.686, JSTOR 1466152
Chan, Alan K. L. (October 1993). "Review: On Reading the Tao Te Ching: Mair, Lafargue, Chan". Philosophy East and West. 43 (4): 745–750. doi:10.2307/1399212. JSTOR 1399212. Retrieved 9 April 2024.

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Suzuki & al. (1913). Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro; et al., eds. (1913), The Canon of Reason and Virtue: Lao-tze's Tao Teh King, La Salle: Open Court.

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Zandbergen, Robbert (2022), "The Ludibrium of Living Well", Monumenta Serica, 70 (2): 367–388, doi:10.1080/02549948.2022.2131802, S2CID 254151927

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Chan (2013). Chan, Alan (2013), "Laozi", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University.
Hansen 2024b; Hansen 2024; Feng 1948, p. 93; Hansen 1992, p. 217. Hansen, Chad (2024b). "Daoism". In Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.). Retrieved 14 June 2025. Hansen, Chad (2024). "Zhuangzi". In Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 ed.). Retrieved 19 February 2024. Feng Youlan (1948). A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83634-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Hansen, Chad (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535076-0.
Chan 2013. Chan, Alan (2013), "Laozi", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University.
Chan, Alan. "Laozi". In Edward N. Zalta (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 ed.). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
Hansen 2024b. Hansen, Chad (2024b). "Daoism". In Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.). Retrieved 14 June 2025.

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Kirkland, Russell (1997), "The Taoism of the Western Imagination and the Taoism of China: De-Colonizing the Exotic Teachings of the East" (PDF), University of Tennessee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2007

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Kirkland, Russell (1997), "The Taoism of the Western Imagination and the Taoism of China: De-Colonizing the Exotic Teachings of the East" (PDF), University of Tennessee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2007

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Standard Chinese: [tâʊ tɤ̌ tɕíŋ] ^ⓘ; in English often UK: /ˌtaʊ tiː ˈtʃɪŋ/ TOW tee CHING, US: /ˌdaʊ dɛ ˈdʒɪŋ/ DOW deh JING;^[2]
Less common romanisations include Daodejing, Tao-te-king,^[3] Tau Tĕh King^[4] and Tao Teh King.^[5]^[6]

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Sima Qian; Sima Tan (1739) [90s BCE]. "Vol. 63, biography of Laozi". Shiji 史記 [Records of the Grand Historian] (in Literary Chinese) (punctuated ed.). Beijing: Imperial Household Department.

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Giles & al. (1905), Introduction. Giles, Lionel; et al., eds. (1905), The Sayings of Lao Tzu, The Wisdom of the East, New York: E. P. Dutton
Wieger (1913), p. 3. Les Pères du Système Taoiste, Taoïsme, Vol. II (in French), translated by Wieger, Léon, Hien Hien, 1913

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Waley, Arthur, ed. (1958), The Way and its Power, New York: Grove, ISBN 0-8021-5085-3, OCLC 1151668016 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Creel (1982), pp. 1–2. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1982, p. 38. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel (1982), pp. 48–51, 93. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books.
Creel 1974, p. 189 (Creel's opinion); Creel 1982, p. 50 (citing Jin 1963, pp. 241–246); Liu 2014, p. 248 (citing Jin 1962) Creel, Herrlee Glessner (1974). Shen Pu-hai: Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century B.C. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-12027-0. Creel, Herrlee Glessner (15 September 1982) [1970]. What Is Taoism?: And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226120478. JSTOR 1397689. OCLC 1256745090 – via Google Books. Jin, Dejian (1963). Sima Qian suo jian shu kao 司馬遷所見書考. Shanghai: Shanghai ren ming chu ban she. OCLC 20065670. Liu, Xiaogan (2014). Xiaogan Liu (ed.). Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy. Springer. ISBN 9789048129270.
Emerson 2013. Emerson, John (2013). Shen Dao: Text, Translation, and Study. Éditions Le Real. OCLC 911414271.