THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUS
Language: English
Published by The Modern Library/Random House, New York. NY, 1938
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Text/Faint creasing to lower corner of pg 199, else NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Upper text edge dyed green. Author, Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator, Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976) immigrated to America in 1935; keen mind w/formidable mastery of Chinese & English. This 1938 work is of the sage Confucius (c. 551- 479 BC) philosopher, an unsuccesful politician of the Spring and Autumn Period, who promoted personal & governmental ethics & morality, agreed upon correctness in social relationships, justice & sincerity. 290 pgs in 11 chapters: I, Introduction; II, The Life of Confucius (based on Szema Ch'ien's biography; III, Central Harmony; III, Ethics & Politics; IV, Ethics & Politics; V, Aphorisms of Confucius; VI, First Discourse: Education through the Six Classics; VII, Second Discourse: An Interview with Duke Ai; VIII, Third Discourse: The Vision of a Social Order; IX, On Education; X, On Music; and XI, Mencius. Fine copy, less dustjacket. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE WISDOM OF CONFUCIUS
- Author
- Lin Yutang (Editor, Translator & Annotator)
- Publisher
- The Modern Library/Random House, New York. NY
- Publication year
- 1938
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies
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