A reader's companion to confucian analects
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A reader's companion to confucian analects
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
1st ed
- : Hardback
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
This companion is not intended as another interpretation of the ancient text, but rather as an aid for contemporary students to develop their own interpretive reading of it, in the hope of thereby aiding them in the search for meaning, purpose, and service in their own lives - as seventy-three generations of Chinese have done.
Table of Contents
Preface What Does it Mean to be A Confucian? A Most Unusual Book: Approaching the Analects How Do You Spell Chinese? The Language of The Analects Terms, Concepts, & Concept-Clusters The Students The Master On Knowing Reading the Analects: Is What it Says True? Roles, Families, & Society Ancestor Veneration Rituals and Spiritual Cultivation Summary Suggestions A Briefly Annotated Brief Bibliography for Further Reading APPENDIX I: Wade-Giles - Pinyin Conversion Table APPENDIX II: Concordance of 30 Key Philosophical Terms in the Analects APPENDIX III: The Students: A Finding List
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