@inbook{1f109ac093e542718026b9a77fb9bdf1,
title = "Revisiting the Date of Daodejing in Light of the Guodian Manuscript",
abstract = "This chapter examines the approximate dating of the Daodejing based on early Chinese excavated manuscripts. The Guodian Laozi text, which contains various interpolations and corruptions under the influence of similar phonetic and script forms, clearly shows that this version aligns with other excavated literature from around the fourth century BCE. This casts doubt on the many theories which postdate the Daodejing to the late Warring States period.",
keywords = "Daodejing, Dating, Excavated manuscripts, Guodian Laozi",
author = "Zhi Chen and Yiwen Qiao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.",
year = "2026",
month = may,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-032-00106-1\_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783032001054",
series = "Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy",
publisher = "Springer Cham",
pages = "79--95",
editor = "Xiaogan Liu and Ai Yuan",
booktitle = "Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing",
edition = "1st",
}