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| | Daode Jing: Chronology |
 | | This account, first recorded at the beginning of the first century BCE, has remained popular, but is almost certainly apocryphal, not least in the ascribed authorship of the Daode jing to a single, named writer rather than an unnamed collective. |
 | | a precocious young scholar, Wang Bi [Wang Pi] (226–49 ce), writes a commentary on the Daode jing, which includes a copy of the text, presumably the most authoritative version available at the time. |
 | | one Matthew Raper presents a Latin version of the Daode jing, produced by Jesuit missionaries in China, to the Royal Asiatic Society. |
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