No Talk in Bed
Owen Flanagan: Confucius, 2 April 1998
The Analects of Confucius
translated by Simon Leys.
Norton, 224 pp., £9.95, February 1998,0 393 31699 8 Show More
translated by Simon Leys.
Norton, 224 pp., £9.95, February 1998,
The Analects of Confucius
translated by Chichung Huang.
Oxford, 224 pp., £35, October 1997,0 19 506157 8 Show More
translated by Chichung Huang.
Oxford, 224 pp., £35, October 1997,
“... sayings by a 19th-century British translator, James Legge. The title is obscure, but it has stuck. Chichung Huang, in his literal translation, makes a strong case that the original title, Lun Yu, is best translated as Ethical Dialogues. Thinking of it in this way, as a book of ethics, presented mostly in the form of sayings that begin ‘The Master ... ”
