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Title: The Analects of Confucius (Norton Paperback) by Confucius, Simon Leys ISBN: 0-393-31699-8 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm not a Confucius nor a China expert, but ...
Comment: I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Granted, I haven't read other translations of the Analects, so my rating is for the book itself more than as a comparison to other translations.
The fact that Confucius lived thousands of years ago is amazing to me ... the things he says apply to people throughout the ages, and they're full of wisdom. Having read the book, I find myself trying to be a bit more of a Confucian gentleman than I did before reading it. Confucius' teachings about humanity and being a gentleman span across the ages.
I'm very glad I read this book. The only reason I didn't give the book 5 stars is because I can't compare it to other translations, and it seems a little improper to rate a translated book without comparing it to other translations. But I personally found Leys' lines to be easily understandable and interesting, even if I have no way of ascertaining their accuracy with the original text.
Rating: 3
Summary: Only partially successful
Comment: A fresh and lively translation, but one that flip-flops between "goodness" and "humanity" in translating _ren_, which weakens it substantially. Copious endnotes follow the text, but the text doesn't provide references to them. Contemporary language. Pinyin romanization.
Rating: 5
Summary: what a great read!
Comment: asia is in crisis. confucius will show us how to get out of it... i gave it as a gift to a friend (a university professor). another friend, a business tycoon, was with us. he browsed through the book, loved what he saw, and offered to buy it on the spot. i promised to get another one for him, so i'm buying a second one. this shows that confucius is for university professors and business tycoons. read it, you'll love it.
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Title: The Epic of Gilgamesh by Maureen Gallery Kovacs ISBN: 0804717117 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mencius (Penguin Classics) by Mencius, D.C. Lau ISBN: 0140442286 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1970 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Chuang Tzu by Burton Watson ISBN: 0231105959 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche ISBN: 0486406636 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Sources of Chinese Tradition by William Theodore De Bary, Irene Bloom, Joseph Adler ISBN: 0231109393 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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