Yuan Dao
Subtitle: tracing Dao to its source
By: translated by D.C. Lau and Roger T. Ames ; with an introduction by Roger T. Ames.
Contributors: Lau, D. C.; Ames, Roger T., 1947-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Classics of ancient China
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Description: Yuan Dao is a subversive document that challenged the autocratic aspirations of one of China's most powerful emperors. Its presentation set in motion a family tragedy in which the compiler, the most celebrated patron of literature of his age, fell victim to the expansionist politics of his uncle, the "Martial" emperor.

Yuan Dao, complete here with English translation and critical Chinese text, is a remarkable distillation of earlier Daoist ideas found in the popular Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) and Shuangzi (Chuang-tzu) texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149).
Chinese text and English translation on opposite pages.