{"id":3656,"date":"2017-03-29T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T02:01:11","slug":"3656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Emerson’s Laozi-in-Progress Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Emerson is working toward a new translation of the Daode Jing<\/em> \u9053\u5fb7\u7d93, and he’s posting his progress online<\/a>. “In the course of time,” he writes, he will “add comments, a translation, crossreferences, notes on the interesting variants, and summary discussions of key topics.” He adds:<\/p>\n

My editing might be called aggressive. Beyond selecting from the variant forms,\u00a0 I have also divided and redistributed a few chapters (and have even abolished a few),\u00a0 and I and have substantially changed the order of the chapters. This new arrangement is intended to make the Daodejing more coherent\u00a0 and show its internal relationships more clearly. This new text is made up entirely of old materials, but it is not a scientific edition. It is an attempt to\u00a0 produce a more readerly DDJ by clearing away some of the historical encumbrances it is burdened with, while at the same time making its history more apparent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And,<\/p>\n

The original DDJ never existed. At every stage the DDJ has been an editorial composite made up of materials of diverse origins, and many of the individual chapters are composites too. This editorial process never ended, and the Guodian text shows us that earlier versions were not necessarily better. Over the centuries editor after editor has tinkered with the text in search of the ideal and unattainable Daodejing, and during this process of tinkering interesting themes have emerged. I am merely\u00a0 the latest tinkerer in that long line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Track his work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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