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Title: Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically by Xi Zhu, Daniel K. Gardner, Chu Hsi ISBN: 0-520-06525-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Summary: Terrific translation of sayings of a brilliant philosopher!
Comment: Chu Hsi (pronounced like "jew shee") is almost unknown in the West. However, he is widely recognized in East Asia as one of the most brilliant and influential Confucian philosophers of all time. Chu Hsi's interpretation of Confucianism became the basis of the civil service examinations in China in the early 14th century A.D., and remained so until the examinations were abolished in the early 20th century. Consequently, generations of intellectuals memorized Chu Hsi's views.
Gardner has done a terrific job translating selections from "The Conversations of Master Chu, Topically Arranged," a collection of Chu Hsi's sayings recorded and organized by his disciples. Gardner has translated a part of the massive "Conversations" dealing with methods of ethical cultivation. Gardner supplements these selections with excerpts from Chu Hsi's metaphysical comments. This is very helpful, since Chu Hsi's views on cultivation are connected to his metaphysical views. Gardner is a well respected scholar of Chu Hsi, and his introduction helps situate Master Chu historically.
People who are interested in Chinese philosophy usually go to the obvious places: the sayings of Confucius, the Tao Te Ching, or the Yi Ching. Why not read something by a figure as influential as Confucius, but less well known, and perhaps more accessible?
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Title: Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects: Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition by Daniel K. Gardner ISBN: 0231128657 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Confucian Moral Self Cultivation by Philip J. Ivanhoe ISBN: 0872205088 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness by Tu Wei-Ming ISBN: 0887069282 Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Mencius by Mencius, D.C. Lau ISBN: 0140442286 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1970 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Confucian Spirituality by Wei-Ming Tu, Mary Evelyn Tucker ISBN: 0824521110 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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