Fine copy in a fine dustjacket. xxxvii, 282 pages. Part One contains a translation of the 'Tao Te Ching' based on the two manuscripts dating from 168 B.C. recently recovered from the Ma-Wang-Tui excavation. Part Two contains the Chinese text of the manuscripts, commentary and annotations, and a working version of the translation, indicating which of the two texts are being used in the rendering, and where the Wang-pi text has had to be resorted to in order to supplement characters entirely missing from the Ma-Wang-Tui texts. The greatest secrets of an ancient Chinese religion revealed!
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