Mencius : : A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader / / W.A.C.H. Dobson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Dobson, W.A.C.H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Mencius at Court --; Chapter Two. Mencius in Public Life --; Chapter Three. Mencius and His Disciples --; Chapter Four. Mencius and His Rivals --; Chapter Five. Comment on the Times --; Chapter Six. The Teachings of Mencius --; Chapter Seven. Maxims --; Notes and Finding List
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442653825; 9783110649680; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442653825
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: W.A.C.H. Dobson.

Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways and thoughts that condition their conduct. The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into one of the streams of thought of the Chinese. Indeed, the perceptive reader might well find that some ideas he though were new and alien in the new China have familiar echoes in Mencius. This new translation, especially arranged and annotated with the general reader in mind, has been made in the light of recent philological research. It aims at rendering an Archaic Chinese original in a modern and unadorned prose, and is intended for the general reader who is otherwise unfamiliar with Chinese authors and desires to understand what Mencius is about without encumbering the text with footnotes and technical apparatus which the specialist quite properly demands. While the text has been translated in its entirety its parts have been rearranged in a sequence which it is hoped will make them easier for the Western reader.