In the hands of Jonathan Star, the eighty-one verses of the Tao Te Ching resound with the elegant, simple images and all-penetrating ideas that have made this ancient work a keystone of the world's wisdom literature.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Gia-fu Feng was born in Shanghai in 1919, was educated in China,
and came to the United States in 1947 to study comparative
religion. He held a BA from Peking University and an MA from
the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Esalen Institute
in Big Sur, California, and directed Stillpoint Foundation, a
Taoist community in Colorado. Gia-fu Feng died in 1985.
Jane English, whose photographs from the integral part of the book,
holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and received her doctorate
from the University of Wisconsin in experimental high energy
particle physics. In 1985 she found her own publishing
business, Earth Heart. Her books and calendars include
Different Doorway: Adventures of Caesarean Born, Mount Shasta:
Where Heaven and Earth Meet (with Jenny Cole) and the yearly Tao Te
Ching Calendar. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts in
1942.
Chuang Tsu/ Inner Chapter (1974), a companion volume to Lao Tsu/
Tao Te Ching, is a direct outcome of the successful collaboration
between Gia-fu Feng and Jane English on the Tao Te Ching.
"It would be hard to find a fresh approach to a text that ranks
only behind the Bible as the most widely translated book in the
world, but Star achieves that goal. . . . As fascinating to the
casual scholar as it is for the serious student." -NAPRA ReView
"Jonathan Star's Tao Te Ching achieves the essential: It clarifies
the meaning of the text without in the slightest reducing its
mystery." -Jacob Needleman
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