Edition |
1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
Description |
xiv, 268 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index. |
Contents |
Leaving home -- Families and politics -- Companions -- Wanderings -- Return -- Teaching -- The rites of life and death -- Defenders. |
Summary |
Chin skillfully illuminates the political and social climate in which Confucius lived. She explains how Confucius made the transition from court advisor to wanderer, and how he reluctantly became a professional teacher as he refined his judgment of human character and composed his vision of a moral political order. The result is an absorbing and original book that shows how Confucius lived and thought: his habits and inclinations, his relation to the people of the time, his work as a teacher and as a counselor, his worries about the world and the generations to come.--Publisher description. |
Subject |
Confucius.
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Philosophy, Chinese -- To 221 B.C.
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ISBN |
9780743246187 |
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0743246187 |
Standard No. |
NLGGC 305978918 |
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AU@ 000042185991 |
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