# D. C. Lau publishes a Penguin Tao Te Ching with a sceptical introduction

Date: 1963

## The fact

In 1963 D. C. Lau’s Penguin Tao Te Ching gave a widely sold English text whose introduction treats the book as composite and the vita as late. Lau is not Laozi.

C. Lau publishes a Penguin Tao Te Ching with a sceptical introduction (1963-01-01).

## Context

Postwar paperbacks moved the text out of sinology shelves. Lau’s notes are the honest part many readers skipped. The row stores the dated edition, not a sales coefficient.

[Laozi](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum, encyclopedia, agency, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: D. C. Lau, Tao Te Ching (Penguin 1963 tradition; public scans of Lau’s text) (https://archive.org/details/taoteching00laot; Internet Archive / Penguin tradition).

## Significance

A sceptical paperback still froze one English wording.

A sceptical paperback still froze one English wording.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
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## People

- Laozi: https://factrail.ai/people/laozi

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://archive.org/details/taoteching00laot
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lz-lau-penguin-1963