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chinese, good, original and little. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 684.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 689 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 7 2020.
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Some chinese scholars have criticized mitchells translation as not being true to the original chinese text
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However for the lay reader this criticism misses the mark
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First any ancient work relies on manuscripts that were written well after the original texts and during this gap the original texts were undoubtedly edited or suffered transcription errors
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Thirdly and this applies to all ancient books of wisdom it is not possible for a person of the twentyfirst century to place themselves in 5th century bce china or first century palestine for that matter
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So from my perspective it is as futile to seek the original and true meaning of the tao te ching as t is try to understand what it is like to be a bat thomas nagle
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This hard bound illustrated volume was published in 1999 by frances lincoln ltd
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Not for the simple minded
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