Dao De Jing in Clear English: Including a Step-By-Step Translation
Laozi & Jeff Pepper (editor) & Xiao Hui Wang (editor)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Imagin8 Press, Verona, 2021
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- Título
- Dao De Jing in Clear English: Including a Step-By-Step Translation
- Autor
- Laozi & Jeff Pepper (editor) & Xiao Hui Wang (editor)
- Editorial
- Imagin8 Press, Verona
- Año de publicación
- 2021
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 173206380X
- ISBN 13
- 9781732063808
- Peso del artículo
- 2 libras
- Catálogos de vendedores
- Eastern Philosophy/Religion
THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW SECOND EDITION THAT INCLUDES TRADITIONAL AS WELL AS SIMPLIFIED CHINESE. THE NEW EDITION'S FULL TITLE IS "Dao De Jing in Clear English: Including a Step-By-Step Translation from Simplified and Traditional Chinese". TO SEE THE NEW EDITION, COPY AND PASTE THE FULL TITLE INTO THE AMAZON SEARCH BAR, OR USE THESE ISBNs: 979-8951011046 FOR PAPERBACK , 979-8951011053 FOR HARDCOVER, AND 979-8951011060 FOR EBOOK.
The Dao De Jing (also called the Tao Te Ching) was written more than 2,500 years ago and is considered one of the most important books in world literature. Coming in at only 5,000 Chinese characters, its timeless wisdom has inspired millions of people around the world and serves as one of the cornerstones of the Taoist religion.
It has been translated into English many, many times, but this new work by the best-selling writing team of Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang is much more than a translation. The authors have taken the unusual step of not just giving you the English translation, but also showing, word by word, how one gets from the original Chinese characters to the English version.
Each of the 81 short chapters contains a beautiful English translation, followed by a word-by-word and line-by-line breakdown of the chapter, showing the original Chinese, the pinyin (phonetic spelling in English characters), a word-for-word literal translation into English, and occasional helpful notes to help the reader better understand the translation. The result is a book that can be read casually, or studied carefully, or anything in between.
This new translation expresses the DDJ in simple language that anyone can access. In their Authors' Notes they say: "This is a book for ordinary people, not scholars. Many DDJ translations have been created by scholars for other scholars, and while we have studied many of them and owe a debt of gratitude to those scholars, we feel that the DDJ’s message is simple, practical and universal, and we want everyone to have the chance to benefit from it. We try to follow the guidance of Laozi in Chapter 70, who tells us, in his usual elliptical way: "My words are very easy to understand, very easy to practice. In this world, they can’t be understood, and can’t be practiced."
It’s impossible to do a 100% literal translation of the DDJ. Ordinary modern Chinese is quite different from Western languages, and the language used in this book is even more different. To start with, the original DDJ is extremely compact. Its verses have very few connecting words, forcing the reader to think deeply about the verse in order to tease out its underlying meaning or meanings. Some words can, depending on context, serve as nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs. Verbs in Chinese generally have no past, present or future tense, nouns have no gender (male/female), and no number (singular/plural). And to make things even more difficult, helpful little words like prepositions and pronouns are often missing entirely. As a result, translating literally from Chinese to English usually results in gibberish. Pepper and Wang have added just enough connecting words so that the sentence makes sense, while still expressing Laozi’s thoughts as concisely as possible. They've also tried really hard to avoid the temptation to add things that weren’t already there in order to make the sentence more readable.
A Pocket Edition of this book is also available. The Pocket Edition contains only the English translation, not the original Chinese or the detailed translation notes. It's only 114 pages vs. 330 pages, and it's a smaller size (5"x8" instead of 6"x9"), making it a better fit for the pants pocket. Please visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732063818 to see this edition.
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