The Authentic Confucius

Author : Ann-Ping Chin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300151187
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius written by Ann-Ping Chin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than two thousand years, Confucius (551- 479 B.C.) has been a fundamental part of China's history. His influence as a moral thinker remains powerful to this day. Yet despite his fame and the perennial interest in his life and teachings, Confucius the man has been elusive, and no definitive biography has emerged. In this book, the scholar and writer Annping Chin negotiates centuries of reconstructions, guess-work, and numerous Chinese texts in order to establish an absorbing and original account of the thinker's life and legacy. [In this book] Chin brings the historical Confucius within reach so that he can lead us into his idea of the moral and explain his timeless teachings on family and politics, culture and learning. Confucius is the culmination of years of research, a book that makes an important and fascinating contribution to biography and Chinese history." -- Book cover.

Author : Annping Chin
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780743246187
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authentic Confucius written by Annping Chin and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame,Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the most reliable Chinese texts in her quest to sort out what is really known about Confucius from the reconstructions and the guesswork that muddled his memory. Chin skillfully illuminates the political and social climate in which Confucius lived. She explains how Confucius made the transition from court advisor to wanderer, and how he reluctantly became a professional teacher as he refined his judgment of human character and composed his vision of a moral political order. The result is an absorbing and original book that shows how Confucius lived and thought: his habits and inclinations, his relation to the people of the time, his work as a teacher and as a counselor, his worries about the world and the generations to come. In this book, Chin brings the historical Confucius within our reach, so that he can lead us into his idea of the moral and to his teachings on family and politics, culture and learning. The Authentic Confucius is a masterful account of the life and intellectual development of a thinker whose presence remains a powerful force today.

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441196536
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Yong Huang and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and thorough account of Confucius and his ideas, underscoring his relevance to both Chinese people and to people in the West.

Author : Confucius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shu King written by Confucius and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Legge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781387810789
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analects of Confucius written by James Legge and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete twenty books of philosophic discussion by Chinese philosopher Confucius are presented here anew in hardcover. Originally, these sayings and conversations were penned during the Warring States period of Chinese antiquity. The subjects range from wise behavior in times of crisis to instruction upon how to live a peaceful life characterized by serenity, humility and good work. The importance of family life and community cooperation are alluded to, offering insight into the mores and customs of ancient China. The politics of the time, rife with infighting between noble families and dukedoms, attract consideration of Confucius and his companions. To better illustrate his points, examples and analogies are readily offered by Confucius, who engages with other philosophers through the course of the twenty named books comprising the core text. This edition's translator is James Legge, a Scottish Sinologist who spent his lifetime in China translating the philosophical and artistic classics.

Author : George Marsh Frederickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Image in the White Mind written by George Marsh Frederickson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruiping Fan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400715420
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China written by Ruiping Fan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast Confucianism in terms of modern Western values, this new generation of Chinese scholars takes the authentic roots of Confucian thought seriously. This collection of essays offers the first critical exploration in English of the emerging Confucian, non-liberal, non-social-democratic, moral and political vision for China’s future. Inspired by the life and scholarship of Jiang Qing who has emerged as China's exemplar contemporary Confucian, this volume allows the English reader access to a moral and cultural vision that seeks to direct China’s political power, social governance, and moral life. For those working in Chinese studies, this collection provides the first access in English to major debates in China concerning a Confucian reconceptualization of governance, a critical Confucian assessment of feminism, Confucianism functioning again as a religion, and the possibility of a moral vision that can fill the cultural vacuum created by the collapse of Marxism.

Author : Meher McArthur
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360220
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius written by Meher McArthur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062502158
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Confucius written by Thomas Cleary and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe paperback edition: Thomas Cleary's brilliant translation of the sayings of Confucius presented in the order of the 64 classic I Ching hexagrams.

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441144684
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Yong Huang and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the three main teachings in Chinese culture, Confucianism has exerted the most profound and lasting influence in China.While Confucianism (a term coined by Westerners) refers to a tradition (Ruism) that predated Confucius, it is most closely associated with Confucius (551-479 BCE), who determined its later development. Confucius' ideas are reflected in his conversations with students, mostly recorded in the Analects. However, this book also brings into discussion those sayings of Confucius that are recorded in other texts, greatly expanding our perspective of the original Confucius. Scholars in the past, unsure about the authenticity of such sayings, have been reluctant to use them in discussing Confucius' view. However, recent archaeological findings have shown that at least some of them are reliable. Confucius: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of authentic Confucius and his ideas, underscoring his contemporary relevance, not only to Chinese people but also to people in the West.