Wood and Origami Crane
Simple, blank, shapable "like uncarved wood" ~ Tao Te Ching      


Writings on Tao or the Tao Te Ching / Daodejing / 道德經
by Ellen Marie Chen, Sarah Allan, Karyn Lai, Sandra A. Wawrytko,
& other women authors
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Selected Hyperlinked Bibliography
(articles available online with library or academic connection)
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1916 / rev. 1922
Mears, Isabella, Tao Te Ching (translation) 1916, rev. 1922, reprint with introduction by Paul Tice, The Book Tree, 2003 (Google Books)

1965
Nakamura, Julia V., The Japanese Tea Ceremony [with combined teachings from Daodejing and Zen Buddhism], Peter Pauper Press, 1965. (Excerpts)

1967
Chen, Ellen Marie, "Tao, Nature, Man, A Study of the Key Ideas in the Tao Te Ching," Fordham University, (c) 1967 Ellen M. Chen, (Dissertation, Philosophy, Ph.D). (Fordham)

1969
Chen, Ellen Marie, "Nothingness and the Mother Principle in Early Chinese Taoism," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 9 (1969) #3, pp. 391-405. (IPQ)

1973
Chen, Ellen Marie, "Is there a Doctrine of Physical Immortality in the Tao Te Ching?" History of Religions, Vol. 12 (February, 1973), #3, pp. 231-249. (JSTOR)

1973
Chen, Ellen Marie, "The Origin and Development of Being (Yu) from Non-Being (Wu) in the Tao Te Ching", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 13 (September, 1973), #3, pp. 403-17. (IPQ)

1973
Chen, Ellen Marie, “The Meaning of Te in the Tao Te Ching,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 32 (October 1973), #4, pp. 457-470. (JSTOR)

1974
Chen, Ellen Marie, "Tao as the Great Mother and the Influence of Motherly Love on the Shaping of Chinese Philosophy," History of Religions, Vol. 14 (August, 1974) #1, pp. 51-64. (JSTOR)

1975
Chen, Ellen Marie, "The Dialectic of Chih (Reason) and Tao (Nature) in the Han Fei-Tzu," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 3 (December, 1975), Issue 1, pp. 1-21. (JCP)

1975/1981
Wawrytko, Sandra A., The Undercurrent of Feminine Philosophy in Eastern and Western Thought, [Tao Te Ching and Spinoza], University Press of America, 1975/1981. (WorldCat Books)

1979
Rump, Ariane, with Wing-tsit Chan, Commentary on the Lao Tzu by Wang Pi, University of Hawaii Press, 1979. (Google Books)


   Cartoon: Hank Ketcham's DENNIS THE MENACE © News America Syndicate
   (Vera C. Rubin below, compare with Daodejing / Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11)

1988
Rubin, Vera C., "Dark Matter in the Universe," [highly readable scientific paper with "DENNIS" cartoon illustrated above, by the astronomer Dr. Vera Cooper Rubin, whose early theories (1974) on dark matter were revolutionary — with exquisite, unintended parallels to Tao Te Ching cosmology]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 132 (1988), No 4, pp. 434-443. (JSTOR)

1989
Chen, Ellen Marie, The Tao Te Ching: A New Translation with Commentary, Paragon House, (March) 1989. ISBN: 1557782385, Paper, 274 pages, Index, Bibliography, Chinese Glossary. (Paragon House)

1994
Allan, Sarah (Editor and Introduction), Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : Translation of the Ma Wang Tui Manuscripts, translated by D. C. Lau, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 Edition (Amazon)

1995
Chen, Ellen Marie, "Key Metaphysical Idea in Taoism," Ninth International Congress in Chinese Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, August, 1995. (synopsis)

1996
Ts'ao Tao-Chung (Cao Daochong, 道德經, Taoist nun, fl. 1119-1125), Lao Tzu Chu, (Commentary on the Tao Te Ching), 21 citations, published in Lao Tzu's TAOTECHING, translated by Red Pine, Mercury House, 1996 (see chapters: 1, 7, 14, 15, 20, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 48, 54, 56, 61, 63, 70, 71, 72, 78, 80 & 81) (WorldCat Books)

1996
Rubin, Vera C., Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters [a collection of scientific talks by the astronomer Dr. Vera Cooper Rubin, whose early (1974) theories on dark matter were revolutionary — with exquisite, unintended parallels to Tao Te Ching cosmology], AIP Press, Springer-Verlag, 1996. (Google Books)

1997
Le Guin, Ursula K., A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way [Tao Te Ching translation], Shambhala, 1997. (Google Books)

1997
Allan, Sarah, The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue, State University of New York Press, 1997. (Google Books)

1998
Allan, Sarah & Crispin Williams, eds. The Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998. (Google Books)

1998
Hardy, Julia M., "Influential Western Interpretations of the Tao Te Ching," in Lao-Tzu and the Tao-te-ching, edited by Livia Kohn, and Michael Lafargue, State University of New York, 1998. (Google Books)

1998
Kohn, Livia, and Michael Lafargue, eds., Lao-Tzu and the Tao-te-ching, State University of New York, 1998 (with essays by Julia M. Hardy, Isabelle Robinet, Livia Kohn, et al). (Google Books)

2000
Lai, Karyn, "The Daodejing: Resources for Contemporary Feminist Thinking," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 27 (June, 2000) #2, pp. 131–153. (Google Scholar or JCP)

2000
Wawrytko, Sandra A., "Konzi as Feminist: Confucian Self-Cultivation in a Contemporary Context, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol 27 (June, 2000), #2, pp. 171-186. (JCP)

2001
Qiu, Peipei, "Onitsura's Makoto and the Daoist Concept of the Natural," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 232-246 (JSTOR)

2001
Lai, Karyn, “Attitudes to Nature in Classical Chinese Philosophy” in A Companion to Environmental Philosophy, Dale Jamieson (ed), Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Co, 2001. (Google Books)

2002
Rowe, Sharon, "Returning to What Matters: Daoist Lessons for Ecofeminisms," International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Vol. 11 (2002) #1, pp. 63-67. (IRGEE)

2003
Allan, Sarah, "The Great One, Water and the Laozi: New Light from Guodian," T'oung Pao, Vol. 89 (2003), Numbers 4-5, pp. 237-285. (Ingenta via Google)

2003
Chen, Chao-Hsiu, Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu's Classic Text in 81 Cards, Boxed Set, [translation based on a version from Qing Dynasty], illustrated with art and calligraphy by Chao-Hsiu Chen, Marlowe & Company, 2003. (WorldCat Books)

2003
Grant, Beata, Daughters of Emptiness, Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns [bilingual text], Wisdom Publications, 2003 (WorldCat Books)

2004
Cline, Erin M., "Two Interpretations of De in the Daodejing," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 31 Issue 2 (June 2004) pp. 219-233. (JCP)

2005
Chen, Ellen Marie, "How Taoist Is Heidegger?" International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 45 (March 2005) #1, pp. 5-20. (IPQ)

2005
Poškait, Loreta, "The Practical and Humanistic Implications of Being a Sage (Shengren) in Daoism," Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 6 (2005) #2. pp. 45-51. (Google Scholar)

2005
Qiu, Peipei, Bashō & the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai, University of Hawaii Press, 2005 (Google Books)

2005
Wang, Robin R., "Zhou Dunyi's Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate Explained (Taijitu shuo): A Construction of the Confucian Metaphysics" [with commentary on Daodejing, Chapters 16, 28, 37, 40, 42], Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 66 (2005) No. 3, pp. 307-323. (Project Muse)

2005
Wawrytko, Sandra A., "The Viability (Dao) and Virtuosity (De) of Daoist Ecology: Reversion (Fu) as Renewal," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 32 (March, 2005), #1, pp. 89-103. (JCP)

2005
Yi-Ping Ong, Tao Te Ching, translation by Charles Muller, with Introduction by Yi-Ping Ong, pp. xiii-xxxi, Barnes and Noble Books, 2005 (WorldCat Books)

2006
Lai, Karyn, Learning from Chinese Philosophies: Ethics of Independent and Contextualised Self, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006 (SOPHIA Review)

2007
Lai, Karyn, "Ziran and Wuwei in the Daodejing: An Ethical Assssment," Dao, 6 (December, 2007) #4. pp. 325-337. (SpringerLink)

2007
Wawrytko, Sandra A., Winning Ways: The Viability (Dao) and Virtuosity (De) of Sunzi's Methods of Warfare (Bingfa), Journal of Chinese Philosphy, Volume 34 (Nvember 2007) Issue 4, (pp. 561-579) (JCP, Wawrytko)

2008
Lai, Karyn, An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (WorldCat Books)

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