Thoughts upon Finishing D.C. Lau’s Confucius (The Analects) @davidnovakreadspoetry
Thoughts upon Finishing D.C. Lau’s Confucius (The Analects)  @davidnovakreadspoetry
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D.C. Lau is the translator of this Penguin Classics edition which also contains a lengthy introduction and three appendices, one about the historical Confucius and how his life has come to be conveyed, one about his coterie of disciples, and one about the text—its transmission and constitution—itself.
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