Yielding · Tao Te Ching

Yielding is an offline reader for the Dao De Jing — all 81 chapters, read slowly. The Chinese text follows the Wang Bi received edition. Each chapter is unfolded in layers: the original text with pinyin annotation, a modern Chinese paraphrase, a summary of the chapter's argument, line-by-line glosses, five classical commentaries, and variant readings from the Mawangdui silk manuscript and the Guodian bamboo slips. Note: this app presents the Dao De Jing in Chinese. Interface text is available in English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese; the source text itself, the annotations and the commentaries are Chinese. WHAT'S INSIDE · All 81 chapters of the Wang Bi received text, broken at punctuation · A modern Chinese paraphrase for every chapter · 590 line-by-line glosses — tap a phrase to highlight it in the source text · Five classical commentaries, read side by side: Wang Bi,…