<DIV><p>&ldquo;A refreshing new translation. . . . Highly recommended.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Library Journal</I></p><p>&ldquo;With its clarity and scholarly range, this version of the <I>Taoteching</I> works as both a readable text and a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I></p><p>&ldquo;Read it in confidence that it comes as close as possible to expressing the Chinese text in English.&rdquo;&mdash;Victor Mair, professor of Chinese studies, University of Pennsylvania</p><p><I>Lao-tzu&rsquo;s</I> <I>Taoteching</I> is an essential volume of world literature, and Red Pine&rsquo;s nuanced and authoritative English translation&mdash;reissued and published with the Chinese text <I>en face</I>&mdash;is one of the best-selling versions. What sets this volume apart from other translations are its commentaries by scores of Taoist scholars, poets, monks, recluses, adepts, and emperors spanning more than two thousand years. &ldquo;I envisioned this book,&rdquo; Red Pine notes in his introduction, &ldquo;as a discussion between Lao-tzu and a group of people who have thought deeply about his text.&rdquo;</p><p><I>Sages have no mind of their own</I><BR><I>their mind is the mind of the people</I><BR><I>to the good they are good</I><BR><I>to the bad they are good</I><BR><I>until they become good</I><BR><I>to the true they are true</I><BR><I>to the false they are true</I><BR><I>until they become true . . .</I></p><p><B>Lao-tzu</B> (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called &ldquo;a dragon among men.&rdquo; He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored the <I>Taoteching</I>.</p><p><B>Red Pine</B> is one of the world&rsquo;s foremost translators of Chinese literary and religious texts.</p></DIV>