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Daodejing Online: A Scholarly Reading Room for Laozi
A richly indexed online edition of the Daodejing with the full 81 chapters, modern paraphrase, historical commentaries, textual variants, translations, and reading tools.
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- Readers studying classical Chinese thought and textual history
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- It presents 1,032 character-level variants alongside fifteen historical commentary traditions.
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The site treats the Daodejing as a navigable corpus rather than a single reading assignment. Its stated base is the Wang Bi text, while separate views compare Mawangdui and Guodian readings, including examples such as “恒” versus “常” and “免成” versus “晚成.” Other sections arrange 15 core concepts across the 81 chapters, identify 247 uses of “不,” and connect Han Feizi stories to passages in the text.
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