Amazon.com description: Product Description: Lao Zi (Lao Tzu, 600-500BC)-a great thinker, educationist, and founder of Taoism-was born in state of Chu. The Analects of Tao, or "Dao De Jing" include "Dao Jing" and "De Jing" The English text of Dao De Jing was mainly based on the translation complied by J. Legge. In this edition, I have made a few of revisions. They included the names and place are converted into Pinyin forms. In this book, I use three forms of written languages-Chinese characters, the Pinyin, and English. Each Chinese character is followed by its Pinyin form (Chinese phonetic symbols). In this way, you can not only understand the meaning of original text, you can also easily pronounce and read the Chinese text as well.