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Acknowledgments Lao Tzu: Text, Notes, and Comments by Ch’en Ku-ying (Chinese Materials Center, 1981) furnished help on textual matters and commentaries. Of the many translations that I consulted, Liou Kia-Hway’s Tao Tö King (Gallimard, 1967) was particularly useful. Occasionally I have borrowed a phrase from the translation of Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (Vintage, 1972). John Tarrant, Jane Hirshfield, Jacob Needleman, and Robert Aitken Roshi read the manuscript and made helpful suggestions. For his considerable share in the making of this book, I would like to express my deep gratitude to that prince among agents, my friend Michael Katz.
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