The unmatchable Chinese Classics edition, which contains the full Chinese text, Legge's English translation on the same page, full notes, citation of Chinese commentators, plus a full dictionary of all Chinese characters used. With this one volume the Sinologist, philosopher, or reader concerned with the Second Master in the Confucian tradition, has everything.
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Format:Paperback
This book contains paralell Chinese and English text on every page of the Translated Work. It also contains some excerpts from thinkers who opposed Mencius's ideas. Mencius (Mang) was a proponent of Confucius's ideas of benevolent government, and travelled around "China"(the warring states) trying to convince
Kings and princes to adopt his approach of generosity towards the
ruled, renunciation of offensive warfare, and respect for
official rituals and rites.
Kings and princes to adopt his approach of generosity towards the
ruled, renunciation of offensive warfare, and respect for
official rituals and rites.
The Style of english translation in this book is considered to be archaic and off-putting by some, as it was done in the 1860's. It is very similar in presentation to Legge's Analects translation.
By GlevumGuy.
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In this book the original chinese text and extensive footnotes take up about two thirds of each page, the remainder has to suffice for the english translation. This does not make for an easy read so unless you are a dedicated scholar I would look elsewhere for Mencius's views. That is what i will be doing, passing this version on to the people at Goodwill charities, I hope they can make better use of it. An academic might well give this a 5 star rating, and perhaps i should have read the description more carefully, but as a lay reader I found this book far too specialized.
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