THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES
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The Trouble with Confucianism

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$24.50 • £19.95 • €22.00

ISBN 9780674910164

Publication Date: 02/01/1996

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150 pages

6 x 9 inches

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

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“It is a pleasure to read a book by a fine scholar who is not distracted from his discussion of the evolution of Confucianism from the time of Confucius himself (who drew on earlier traditions) by the trouble Confucianists had, and created, over the millennia. Gu Jiegang, who said we should study one Confucius at a time—he changed from a historical figure to a mythological one (even a magician) and a sage—would have liked this book.”—Asian Studies Review

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