,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 21, pp. 344–60. (An intriguing exploration of one of the more paradoxical aspects of the text.)TRANSLATIONS
Chan, Alan K.L. 1991. Two Visions of the Way. Albany: SUNY Press. (A translation and study of the Heshanggong and Wang Bi commentaries on the Laozi.)
Chan, Wing-tsit. 1963. The Way of Lao Tzu (Tao te ching). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (A thoughtful and scholarly translation that makes revealing use of the commentarial tradition.)
Henricks, Robert G. 1989. Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Ching. New York: Ballantine. (A fine translation and introduction to the Mawangdui version of the text.)
Mair, Victor. 1990. Tao Te Ching. New York: Bantam Books. (An elegant and thoughtful translation and study of the Mawangdui version of the text.)
Lau, D.C. 1963. Tao Te Ching. Baltimore: Penguin Books. (A graceful and terse translation with informative introduction and appendices.)
Lynn, Richard John. 1999. The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-Te Ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press. (A masterful translation of the text and Wang Bi’s commentary. Includes a thorough and insightful study of Wang Bi’s life and thought.)
Waley, Arthur. 1963. The Way and Its Power. New York: Grove Press. (A thoughtful translation with a substantial and impressive introduction.)
SECONDARY WORKS
Creel, Herrlee G. 1970. What Is Taoism? And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Contains several seminal essays on the thought and history of the text.)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds. 1999. Essays on Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi. Albany: SUNY Press. (An anthology of essays on the thought of the text.)
Kohn, Livia, and Michael LaFargue, eds. 1998. Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching Albany: SUNY Press. (A broad range of essays on the text, its reception, and interpretation.)
Lau, D.C. 1958. “The Treatment of Opposites in Lao Tzu ,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 21, pp. 344–60. (An intriguing exploration of one of the more paradoxical aspects of the text.)
GENERAL STUDIES OF CHINESE THOUGHT
Chan, Wing-tsit. 1963. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Fung, Yu-lan. 1952–53. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Graham, Angus C. 1989. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court.
Schwartz, Benjamin I. 1985. The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.