Tao Te Ching: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese

I'm native chinese. Tao Te Ching is in ancient chinese so even chinese people need translation into modern chinese, and this translation is much better and accurate than many Chinese translations, in my opinion.

Lionel Giles the translator was a British sinologist, writer, and philosopher. I think he really capture the essence and translated really well!as I saw many other versions thats out there, are more like translating word by word. many does not translate well and capture the essence of the Tao Te ching.

I don't read chinese, but it is interesting to see the chinese characters along side the english translation. The translation is good, too. I read the Tao Te Ching in several translations and this one fits in well.

Beware of various typos. For instance, the word 美 or "beauty" is omitted in second line of Chapter 20. Also, in some places the English doesn't match the Chinese above it or is missing for a line or two.Overall the translation is simple and clear, though, and I agree with it most of the time over Ellen Chen's 1989 version, though using both sheds light into harder to understand parts.Would use as a quick guide because its searchable offline and tabulated by chapters, but be sure to cross-check due to typos!!

really poor translation. lots of Chinese paragraphs remain untranslated. Don't waste your money

bilingual good is - Yoda.

enjoyed it

The Chinese language portion does not show up in the ebook version.

It’s really a great classic Chinese book. It’s contents cover a variety of areas in our lives such as philosophy, business management, military and health care ....However, it’s not that easy to fully understand all of it by the first glance. It’s recommended to read it from time to time so as to master the essence of it.