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If you can find the oversized print copy of this Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation, originally published by Random House, it is one of the most visually
by driggs 3y ago
If you can find the oversized print copy of this Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation, originally published by Random House, it is one of the most visually inspiring books to read:
https://eheart.com/TAO/TTC/TTCchapters-small.pdf https://eheart.com/TAO/TTC/TTCchapters-small.pdf
Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English were married (by Alan Watts!), and each chapter of the book includes inspiring black-and-white photography by English, with artful Chinese calligraphy from Gia-Fu.
They also published a translation of Chuang Tzu in the same beautiful format.
- eigenhombre 3y agoThis translation was my introduction to the text, and is still my favorite. Though I've seen other translations I prefer purely on a textual basis, I find their combination of photos, handwritten calligraphy, and English text very powerful still. (Parenthetically, I got to meet English about twenty years ago and have her inscription in my copy of the book. She studied high energy physics at Madison about twenty years before I did.)
- softwaredoug 3y agoLooks beautiful - is this that edition? https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180810/tao-te-ching-by-lao-tsu-trans-gia-fu-feng-and-jane-english-with-toinette-lippe-intro-jacob-needleman/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/180810/tao-te-ching...
- driggs 3y agoThe original was published by Random House in 1972; mine is a 25th anniversary copy published by Vintage in 1997. The one you link to, published by Penguin - Random House in 2011, says "Jane English and her long-time editor, Toinette Lippe, have refreshed and revised the translation" and that it "features over a hundred new photographs by Jane English", so seems like it might be a 2.0 version. I'm sure it's beautiful and inspiring as well, but I've only personally read the original version.