On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince
Matteo Ricci; Translated by Timothy Billings
September, 2009
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14924-2
$29.50
/ £20.50
Acknowledgments
Introduction
On Friendship
Chronology of Editions
Texts and Variants
Sources and Notes
Index
Related Subjects
About the Author
Timothy Billings holds advanced degrees in sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and in English literature from Cornell University. For more than ten years he has been a professor at Middlebury College, where he teaches Shakespeare and world literature. His critical edition of Victor Segalen's French and Chinese prose poems, Stèles, was awarded the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work.
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