Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Confucius and the Chinese Classics
* Concise introductions to the texts
* Features James Legge’s seminal translations
* All Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism
* Includes multiple translations of the ANALECTS, including a special dual text
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes the legendary I CHING divination text
* Features three biographies – discover Confucius’ ancient world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Four Books
GREAT LEARNING
DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN
ANALECTS
MENCIUS
The Five Classics
CLASSIC OF POETRY
BOOK OF DOCUMENTS
BOOK OF RITES
I CHING
SPRING AND AUTUMN ANNALS
The Biographies
THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS by James Legge
THE LIFE, LABOURS AND DOCTRINES OF CONFUCIUS by Edward Harper Parker
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: CONFUCIUS