A Chinese reading of the Daodejing
Subtitle: Wang Bi's commentary on the Laozi with critical text and translation
By: Rudolf G. Wagner.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Description: "Many of the brightest Chinese minds have used the form of the commentary to open the terse and poetic chapters of the Laozi to their readers and also to develop a philosophy of their own. None has been more sophisticated, philosophically probing, and influential in the endeavor than a young genius of the third century C.E., Wang Bi (226-249). In this book, Rudolf G. Wagner provides a full translation of the Laozi that extracts from Wang Bi's Commentary the manner in which he read the text, as well as a full translation of Wang Bi's Commentary and his essay on the "subtle pointers" of the Laozi. The result is a Chinese reading of the Laozi that will surprise and delight Western readers familiar with some of the many translations of the work."--BOOK JACKET.