While there are many lovely and poetic "translations" of the Dao De Jing in English, the translator of this volume rightly points out that many of these are written by non-Chinese speakers with limited appreciation for the ambiguity of the book's language and the historical context of the era in which it was written.

This book is a remedy for that, with a lengthy introduction, a fresh translation directly from the Chinese accompanied by commentary, and extensive notes that take you as deeply into the text as you would want to go.

I read Dao De Jing once in the past, and I really want a better translation for this gem book. So when I found this, this is really a groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi’s The Dao De Jing. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I can.