https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/moel13678.4 The Daodejing or, as it was called earlier in history, the Laozi,¹ is a book that can both fascinate and trouble its ...

The teachings of Laozi and Confucius were not incorporated into a religious movement until the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). The result was a mix of philosophy and religion. Over the centuries that ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] In 2006, Wu Weishan, a sculptor of note, created a statue of Laozi, the great philosopher who lived more than 2,400 years ago, in which the semiabstract xieyi ...