![]() ![]() Mitchell certainly doesn’t need anyone to defend him. ![]() The reviews state that Mitchell is completely unqualified to release a version of the Tao Te Ching because he cannot read the classical Chinese in which the text was originally written.Īs we acknowledge in our own version of the text, my co-authors and I can’t read Chinese either, so these complaints, while they were levelled against someone else’s work, hit very close to home for me. The reviews stuck out because of how vehemently they chastised the author, but also because the criticism they had of Mitchell’s book could just as easily be applied to ours. While browsing the reviews for “Tao Te Ching: A New English Version,” by Stephen Mitchell, a series of extremely negative comments caught my eye. Our version has yet to receive any reviews of its own, and I’m very interested in seeing what type of praise and (more notably) criticism we might expect once the feedback starts trickling in. Since the recent publication of our version of the Tao Te Ching, I’ve been self-consciously eyeing up many of the other versions that are available next to ours in the Kindle Store.Ĭomparing the actual wordings of these other versions to our own has been enjoyable, but I’ve also spent some time exploring the reviews - both positive and negative - that have been left on Amazon by readers. ![]()
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