The Pocket Te

by Joanna C. Lee (Author), Ken Smith (Author), Patrick P. Lee (Illustrator)

Lao Tzu's seminal Book of Te (or Virtue ), the ancient companion to the Book of Tao (the Way), appears here in a new translation by Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith stripping away layers of scholarly interpretations and returning to the Te's original poetic power. With an introductory essay recounting the text's journey from Chinese folklore and archeaological artifact to international literary classic, this new bilingual edition also contains the original Chinese rendered in Han Dynasty calligraphy with modern pinyin pronunciation.

• Dimensions: 3.9 x 2.4 x 0.4 inches
  
• Weight: 1.6 ounces