On the Cultural Dissemination of &i&Tao Te Ching&/i& in the Western World

摘要

Tao Te Ching not only has a profound impact on the development of Chinese civilization, but also has a profound spiritual innovation effect on western modern civilization. This thesis aims to make a study on the process of the cultural transmission of Tao Te Ching in the western world and the domestic research into it in China. It comes to the conclusion on the necessity of the research into the cultural transmissio n of Tao Te Ching in the west, which will promote the fusion of Chinese and western culture and the progress of human civilization.