The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors

E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks

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Paper, 342 pages, 24 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-10431-9
$29.00 / £20.00

April, 1998
Cloth, 342 pages, 24 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-10430-2
$95.00 / £65.50

This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.

Related Subjects

• Asian/Islamic Philosophy

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

E. Bruce Brooks is Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published studies on various aspects of textual analysis in Chinese and English.A. Taeko Brooks is the coauthor, with E. Bruce Brooks, of Chinese Character Frequency Lists and with him was the cofounder in 1993 of the Warring States Working Group.

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