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Quality
Upon getting the book and opening it, i was very pleased.
I am more calm, centered and mindful.
Packaging/appearance
The book takes you out of the mind.
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- This product had a total of 1,101 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 27 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Stephen mitchell makes clear what other versions make complicated
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Beautiful book but too expensive for a paperback
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It does not feel like a westernized translation nor does it feel incomprehensible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If your someone like myself your a skeptic when it comes to anything religious
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The soul of chinese literature is poetry from oldest book of odes to tangshu tang poetry to songzu song dynasty poetry to yungqu yung dynasty poetry
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Mitchell interprets lao tzu the erudite librarian and eminent scholar in his own time correctly when he writes its clear from his teachings that he deeply cared about society if society means the welfare of ones fellow human beings his book is among other things a treatise on the art of government whether of a country or of a child
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is the chinese written characters that makes tao te ching and chinese poetry an art of arts kind