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The Chinese Text Project puts a public digital Dao De Jing on a stable URL

By 2006 Donald Sturgeon’s Chinese Text Project was publishing a freely readable Dao De Jing with Chinese text and aligned translations. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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By 2006 Donald Sturgeon’s Chinese Text Project was publishing a freely readable Dao De Jing with Chinese text and aligned translations. It is not an excavated slip.

Context

Digital alignment lets readers see chapter variants without a research library. It can also freeze one punctuation.

Laozi is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A URL is not a tomb.

A URL is not a tomb.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Laozi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Traditional heading of the Daodejing plus later editors, excavators, temples, or states. Complex, not an autograph.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Chinese Text Project — Dao De JingChinese Text Project · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — LaoziStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLaozi
  2. contributed toFactThe Chinese Text Project puts a public digital Dao De Jing on a stable URL
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). The Chinese Text Project puts a public digital Dao De Jing on a stable URL. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lz-ctext-dao-de-jing

https://factrail.ai/facts/lz-ctext-dao-de-jing

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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