Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao

John Minford studied Chinese at Oxford and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. John Minford was born in 1946, in Birmingham, UK. He studied ancient Greek and Latin literature at Winchester College. He received first class honours in Chinese literature at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1980, he received his PhD at the Australian National show more University. In 2016, he was the winner of won the inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation for his Chinese-to-English translation of I Ching: The Book of Change. (Bowker Author Biography) show less