Confucius : a life of thought and politics / Ann-ping Chin.
Chin, Ann-ping, 1950-
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
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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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.

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