The Old Master

A unique translation of and commentary on the Laozi, based on the oldest edition of the work. This unique, highly contextualized translation of the Laozi is based on the earliest known edition of the work, Text A of the Mawangdui Laozi , written before 202 BCE. No other editions are comparable to this text in its antiquity. Hongkyung Kim also incorporates the recent archaeological discovery of Laozi -related documents disentombed in 1993 in Guodian, seeing these documents as proto-materials for