Lao-Tzu; Addiss & Lombardo trans, Tao Te Ching (2007)

Lao-Tzu.
Tao Te Ching.
Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo.
Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2007.
Originally published: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Laozi.
• Tao Te Ching.
• Tao.
• Wu wei.
• Taoism.
• Taoist philosophy.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Laozi.
• Daoism.
• Religious Daoism.

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This edition of the Addiss and Lombardo translation has these dust jacket blurbs by Gary Snyder:

• "Of the many translations I have read in English, this is unquestionably the best."
• "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and is as concisely poetic as the original. It preserves the quirks and flavors of the original text. The translators harkened to the message of the book itself, and kept it clear and gently strong."

I chose this book on the basis of these endorsements by Gary Snyder (also, it's a nice little hardback, printed on nice paper). While this translation is very poetic (how would I know that it follows the original text very closely?) I also found it very terse and cryptic. This edition has no explanatory notes or commentary; the Introduction by Burton Watson provides some historical context but is of no help in understanding the text. As a beginner encountering the Tao Te Ching for the first time I often found this edition too cryptic and occasionally, to me, incomprehensible. I think an edition with added commentary or explanatory notes would be very helpful. Here are some alternatives.

• Lao Tzu. Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with selected commentaries from the past 2,000 years. Translated by Red Pine. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laozi. Daodejing. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Zi. Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation. Translated by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
  (has much commentary by the translators)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. The Way and Its Power: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1958.
  (has a lengthy introduction)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2019.
  (has some explanatory footnotes)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laozi. The Daodejing of Laozi. Translated by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Hackett Classics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The Wikipedia article on Tao Te Ching contains a list of "notable translations". The Bibliography of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Laozi" includes many translations.

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Simpkins & Simpkins, Taoism for Beginners (2020)

C. Alexander Simpkins and Annellen Simpkins.
Taoism for Beginners: A Guide to Balanced Living.
Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2020.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Taoism.
• Taoist philosophy.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Daoism.
• Religious Daoism.
• Laozi.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Tim Barrett, Martin Palmer, Hilde De Weerdt, "Daoism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 December 2010.
  • Professor T H Barrett, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.
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  • Martin Palmer (b. 1953), Wikipedia.
  • Martin Palmer, wordpress.com.
  • Martin Palmer, Sacred Land.
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  • Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History, Leiden University.
  • Hilde De Weerdt, X / Twitter.
• Melvyn Bragg, Christopher Cullen, Carol Michaelson, Roel Sterckx, "The Han Synthesis," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 October 2004.
  • Qin dynasty (221–207 BC).
  • Chu–Han contention (206–202 BC).
  • Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD).
    • Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD).
    • Eastern Han (25–220 AD).
  • Society and culture of the Han dynasty.
  • Society and culture of the Han dynasty: Education, literature, and philosophy.
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  • Chinese philosophy.
  • Hundred Schools of Thought, flourished from the 6th century BC to 221 BC.
  Six major philosophical schools of the Hundred Schools:
  • Confucianism.
  • Legalism (Chinese philosophy).
  • Taoism / Taoist philosophy.
  • Mohism.
  • School of Yin Yang.
    • yin-yang.
    • Five Elements.
  • School of Names.
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  • Christopher Cullen (b. 1946), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Christopher Cullen, Emeritus Director, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge.
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  • Carol Michaelson, British Museum.
  • Carol Michaelson, LinkedIn.
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  • Roel Sterckx (b. 1969), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Roel Sterckx FBA, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

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This is the first book on Taoism I have read (aside from the Tao Te Ching) so I can't compare it to other notable introductions such as those by Alan Watts and Hans-Georg Moeller. I was prompted to seek out an introductory book on Taoism because I found the Tao Te Ching somewhat baffling on first reading (see my forthcoming post on Tao Te Ching for various editions; the version I first read is very terse and without any explanatory notes or commentary, which I think is not appropriate for beginners; other translations of Tao Te Ching contain more commentary and interpretative renditions).

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Tooze, The Deluge (2014)

Adam Tooze.
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931.
New York: Viking Penguin, 2014.

First published as:
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931.
London: Allan Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.), 2014.

Book Information: Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Adam Tooze, adamtooze.com.
• Adam Tooze (b. 1967), Wikipedia.
• Adam Tooze, Department of History, Columbia University.
• European Institute, Columbia University.
• Adam Tooze, London Review of Books.
• Chartbook, Adam Tooze on Substack.
• Adam Tooze, @adam_tooze, Twitter.
• Search YouTube for Adam Tooze.
• Adam Tooze. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
  [Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Adam Tooze. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. New York: Penguin Books, 2018.
  [Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video and Audio: Adam Tooze

• The Europe Center Lectureship on Europe and the World, Stanford University, 2014:
  1. Adam Tooze, "Making Peace in Europe 1917-1919: Brest-Litovsk and Versailles", 30 April 2014.
  2. Adam Tooze, "Hegemony: Europe, America and the problem of financial reconstruction, 1916-1933", 01 May 2014.
  3. Adam Tooze, "Unsettled Lands: the interwar crisis of agrarian Europe", 02 May 2014.
  The Europe Center, Stanford University.
• Adam Tooze, "The Macroeconomics of Stabilization in Europe and the U.S., 1919-1926", Herrenhausen Symposium ("World-Counter-Revolutions"), Hanover, Germany, 10 June 2016.
  • Book Launch: World(Counter)Revolutions 1917-1920, results of the 2016 Herrenhausen Symposium, edited by Stefan Rinke and Michael Wildt.
    An event at the 2017 Herrenhausen Symposium, 9 May 2017.
• Adam Tooze, Robert Kagan, Thomas Wright, "U.S. Global Leadership", Brookings Institution, C-SPAN.org, 13 November 2018.
  • Another version, posted to YouTube:
    Adam Tooze, Robert Kagan, Thomas Wright, "World order without America?", Brookings Institution, 13 November 2018.
  • Event Information, Transcript, etc. at Brookings Institution.
• Fang Xinghai, Minouche Shafik, Adam Tooze, Martin Wolf, "When Global Orders Fail", World Economic Forum, Davos, 23 January 2019.
  • Event Information [Spanish; Chinese] at World Economic Forum.
• Adam Tooze, "American Power in the Long 20th Century", London Review of Books, 27 March 2019.
  • Event Information at London Review of Books.
• Adam Tooze, Keynote Address: "Versailles and the Interwar Crisis: The Problem of Hegemony Revisited", The Paris Centennial Conference, The American University of Paris, 24 May 2019.
  • The Paris Centennial Conference 2019, YouTube Playlist.
  • Paris Centennial Conference, 23-26 May 2019, conference website.
• Adam Tooze, "The Question of American Hegemony: A Historical Perspective", Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 4 June 2019.
  • Event Information at Scuola Normale Superiore.
• Adam Tooze, Edward Carr, Stanley Fischer, Cecilia Skingsley, Geoff Mann, "Economic Consequences Centenary Panel Discussion", Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, 09 September 2019.
  
  • Full title of this video:
    Economic Consequences of the Peace Centenary Conference.
    Panel: Contemporary Relevance of the Economic Consequences.
  • Economic Consequences Centenary, YouTube Playlist.
  • Economic Consequences of the Peace Centenary Conference website.
  • Economic Consequences of the Peace, Marshall Library, University of Cambridge.
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919. Wikipedia.
• Adam Tooze, Matt Klein and Jordan Schneider, "Adam Tooze on Why History Matters", China Talk with Jordan Schneider, 18 September 2020.
  • Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Adam Tooze, "Whose century?", London Review of Books, Vol. 42, No. 15, 30 July 2020. (This is the article mentioned at 1:05:46.)

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 1910s.
• 1920s.
• 1930s.

World War I:

• International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919).
• World War I, 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918.
• Causes of World War I.
• Diplomatic history of World War I.
• Economic history of World War I.
• History of Germany during World War I.
• Austria-Hungary: World War I.
• Eastern Front (World War I).
• American entry into World War I, April 1917.
• United States in World War I.
• Japan during World War I.
• China during World War I.
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• Russian Revolution, 1917 – 1923.
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed 3 March 1918.
• German Revolution of 1918–1919.
• Treaty of Versailles, signed 28 June 1919.
• Dissolution of Austria-Hungary.
• Aftermath of World War I.
• World War I reparations.

Interwar Period:

• Interwar period, November 1918 – September 1939.
• Gold standard: Impact of World War I.
• European interwar economy.
• Interwar Britain.
• Interwar France.
• Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918 – 1933.
• History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1917–1927).
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• Kingdom of Italy: World War I and the failure of the liberal state (1915–1922).
• Fascist Italy (1922–1943).
• Taishō period, Japan, July 1912 to December 1926.
• Shōwa (1926–1989) period, Japan.
• History of the Republic of China, 1912 – 1949.
• Warlord Era, China, 1916 – 1928.
• British Raj: 1914–1947.
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• International relations (1919–1939).
• History of the foreign relations of the United Kingdom: Interwar years 1919–1939.
• History of French foreign relations: Interwar years.
• History of United States foreign policy: Interwar years, 1921–1933.
• Foreign relations of the Soviet Union: 1917–1939.
• Germany–Soviet Union relations, 1918–1941.
• United Kingdom–United States relations: Inter-war years.
• Open Door Policy of the United States, enunciated in US Secretary of State John Hay's "Open Door Note", dated 6 September 1899.
• History of Japanese foreign relations: 1910–1941.
• History of China–Japan relations: Meiji Restoration and the rise of the Japanese Empire 1868–1931.
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• Depression of 1920–1921.
• Washington Naval Treaty, signed 6 February 1922.
• Genoa Conference (1922), April – May 1922.
• Treaty of Rapallo (1922), signed 16 April 1922.
• World War I reparations.
• Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, 1921 – 1923.
• Occupation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium, January 1923 – August 1925.
• Dawes Plan, 1924.
• Locarno Treaties, signed 01 December 1925.
• Kellogg–Briand Pact, General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, signed 27 August 1928.
• Young Plan, 1929.
• Hoover Moratorium, 20 June 1931.
• Mukden Incident, Manchurian Incident, 18 September 1931.
  Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
• Great Depression, 1930s.

World War II:

• Causes of World War II.
• Diplomatic history of World War II.
• Remilitarization of the Rhineland, March 1936. (This article describes the gradual crumbling of the Versailles Treaty restrictions on Germany.)
• German rearmament. (Also related to the Versailles Treaty.)

Note: I omitted listing articles related to empires, nations or regions that are little discussed in Adam Tooze's book The Deluge. Therefore, despite the impact of World War I on those areas, I omitted articles related to, for example, the Balkans, Hungary, Romania, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, Mesopotamia.

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