Confucius : a life of thought and politics / Ann-ping Chin.
2008
B128.C8 C4927 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Confucius : a life of thought and politics / Ann-ping Chin.
Author
Chin, Ann-ping, 1950-
ISBN
9780300151183 (pbk.)
0300151187 (pbk.)
9780300136494
0300136498
0300151187 (pbk.)
9780300136494
0300136498
Publication Details
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 268 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
B128.C8 C4927 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
181.112
Summary
"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.
Note
Originally published: New York : Scribner, 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Leaving home
2. Families and politics
3. Companions
4. Wanderings
5. Return
6. Teaching
7. The rites of life and death
8. Defenders.
1. Leaving home
2. Families and politics
3. Companions
4. Wanderings
5. Return
6. Teaching
7. The rites of life and death
8. Defenders.