Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface xv
5. Reading the Daodejing Synthetically 1
6. Modern Scholarship on the Daodejing 15
7. Traditions of Reading the Daodejing 47
8. The Daos of Laozi and Confucius 67
9. Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing 93
10. The Sage and the World 139
11. The Sage and the Project 175
12. The Sage and Bad Knowledge 197
13. The Sage and Good Knowledge 225
14. The Daodejing 235
15. Notes 269
16. Bibliography 293
17. Index 303