Late last year, Nobel literature prize juror Goran Malmqvist came to Taiwan to give a series of lectures; this internationally known sinologist went into sinology in the first place because in his youth he was deeply attracted by Laozi. In Germany, it is said, thanks in part to the back-to-nature movement, almost every intellectual has a copy of Laozi.
去年底諾貝爾文學獎評審委員馬悅然來台講學，這位國際知名的漢學家，年輕時因為深受《老子》一書吸引，奮而研究漢學；在回歸自然風氣助燃下，據說今天德國知識份子幾乎人手一冊《老子》。