Book · 400 BC · Nonfiction

Tao Te Ching

Name: Tao Te Ching
Author: Lao Tzu

Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins) · 144 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Water wears down stone, and the way that can be spoken is not the eternal way. Eighty-one verses on yielding, emptiness, and governing least have shaped Chinese thought for twenty-four hundred years.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Taoism Letting go Balance Opposites

Time

400 BCDepicts Ancient World

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