The original analects
Subtitle: sayings of Confucius and his successors
By: a new translation and commentary by E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks = [Lun yü pien / Pai Mu-chih, Pai Miao-tzu].
Contributors: Brooks, E. Bruce 1936-; Brooks, A. Taeko.
Series: Translations from the Asian classics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Confucianism.; Confucian parables.
Other titles: Lun yü pien
Work titles: Lun yü.
Description: "No one has influenced Chinese life as profoundly as Confucius. Among the most important embodiments of that influence is the Analects, a seeming record of Confucius's conversations with his disciples and with the rulers and ministers of his own time. These sayings, many of them laconic, aphoristic, and difficult to interpret, have done much to shape the culture and history of East Asia.".

"Bruce and Taeko Brooks have returned this wide-ranging text to its full historical and intellectual setting, organizing the sayings in their original chronological sequence, and permitting the Analects to be read for maximum understanding, not as a closed system of thought but as a richly revealing record of the interaction of life and thought as it evolved over almost the entire Warring States period.".

"The Original Analects has clarified contradictions in the text by showing how they reflect changing social conditions and philosophical emphases over the two centuries during which it was compiled.

The book includes a fresh and fluid translation, a detailed commentary and interpretation for each saying, illustrations of objects from the Warring States period, and an extensive critical apparatus setting forth the textual argument on which the translation is based, and indicating how the later view of the work as the consistent maxims of a universal sage gradually replaced the historical reality."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Parallel title in Chinese characters; translator's names also in Chinese characters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-323) and index.

TRIN copy has "Interpolations finding list: the original analects" inserted.