One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.Chinas first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from state to state as an itinerant philosopher. The Analects preserves his major teachings, as compiled by his disciples after his death everything from how people should relate to each other (the Golden Rule, which he was the first to define), to how a country should be organized (like a family), to how to lie in bed (not like a corpse).This new translation, by one of the preeminent scholars of Confucius, draws on the most recent excavated texts and latest scholarship. The historian Annping Chin sets out to illuminate the historical context of Confuciuss teachings, explaining who the many local figures referenced in The Analects are, and navigating a rich tradition of historical commentaries to provide a map of Confucian thought that brings us as close as possible to experiencing Confucius as his followers might have 2,500 years ago.Confucius (551479 B.C.) was a philosopher, political figure and founder of one of the major schools of thought in Chinese history.Annping Chin is a senior lecturer in the history department at Yale and is the author of The Authentic Confucius A Life of Thought and Politics and a coauthor, with Jonathan Spence, of The Chinese Century A Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: HPDF; Weight: 412 g; Dimensions: 193 x 160 x 20

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