{"id":58011,"date":"2026-05-27T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=58011"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:41:00","slug":"my-academic-story-with-china-misha-tadd-there-are-far-more-translations-of-the-laozi-than-we-might-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=58011","title":{"rendered":"My Academic Story with China | Misha Tadd: There are far more translations of the &#8220;Laozi&#8221; than we might imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">BEIJING<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">May 26, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; A news report from Global Times:<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">\u3010Misha\u00a0Tadd,\u00a0associate\u00a0professor\u00a0of\u00a0Nankai\u00a0University\u00a0College\u00a0of\u00a0Philosophy\u00a0and\u00a0director\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Global\u00a0Laozegetics\u00a0Research\u00a0Center\u3011<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">Laozi holds a very high status throughout the entire history of Chinese culture. He has another distinctive feature: his works have the most translations overseas, far exceeding the translations of the\u00a0Analects of Confucius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">Therefore, I began studying the translations of\u00a0Laozi. Then I increasingly discovered that the number of\u00a0Laozi&#8217;s translated versions is far greater than we imagine. Moreover, in terms of its spread, for example, in Iran, there should be at least forty translations in Persian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">As a result, I proposed the concept of &#8220;Global Laozegetics.&#8221;\u00a0I believe it is best to view it from a holistic perspective. Because whether it is the various traditional interpretations or how people overseas interpret it, the most fundamental process is actually the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">(They all) read the original text. There is an exchange and dialogue between the original text and the reader, and the result is the emergence of a new interpretation. Then, regardless of whether it is in classical Chinese, modern Chinese, or various foreign languages, this fundamental process is interconnected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">BEIJING<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">May 26, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; A news report from Global Times:<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">\u3010Misha\u00a0Tadd,\u00a0associate\u00a0professor\u00a0of\u00a0Nankai\u00a0University\u00a0College\u00a0of\u00a0Philosophy\u00a0and\u00a0director\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Global\u00a0Laozegetics\u00a0Research\u00a0Center\u3011<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">Laozi holds a very high status throughout the entire history of Chinese culture. He has another distinctive feature: his works have the most translations overseas, far exceeding the translations of the\u00a0Analects of Confucius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">Therefore, I began studying the translations of\u00a0Laozi. Then I increasingly discovered that the number of\u00a0Laozi&#8217;s translated versions is far greater than we imagine. Moreover, in terms of its spread, for example, in Iran, there should be at least forty translations in Persian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">As a result, I proposed the concept of &#8220;Global Laozegetics.&#8221;\u00a0I believe it is best to view it from a holistic perspective. Because whether it is the various traditional interpretations or how people overseas interpret it, the most fundamental process is actually the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">(They all) read the original text. There is an exchange and dialogue between the original text and the reader, and the result is the emergence of a new interpretation. Then, regardless of whether it is in classical Chinese, modern Chinese, or various foreign languages, this fundamental process is interconnected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntaj\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}