J.N.Lord – Four Books
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In this entertaining work, shows how the Chinese have read and comprehended the Four Books—Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance—since the eleventh century. Gardner’s annotations on selected portions in English include extracts from the commentary and interpretation of the great Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200).
This study is an excellent introduction to the fundamental literature of the Confucian tradition from the twelfth to the twentieth century. It walks the reader through Zhu Xi’s important interpretation of the Four Books, demonstrating how Zhu, through the genre of commentary, gave these fundamental writings new coherence and significance. Since the Four Books with Zhu Xi’s commentary served as the basic textbook for Chinese schooling and civil service examinations for almost 700 years, this book also demonstrates the character of the conventional Chinese educational curriculum.
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