![]() ![]() As for records of Confucius' travels scattered throughout the Analects and in diverse Warring States-era writings, 'they appear either as fragments or as isolated episodes, and most of the episodes are either too tidy, too self-conscious, or too well-crafted to be authentic' (p.85). but a more careful reading convinced me that most of the stories were inventions' (p.5). As she explains: 'I considered including many more stories of Confucius written before the first century…. One recent publication in which the author does attempt to do this is Annping Chin's Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics. ![]() Creel's Confucius: the Man and the Myth which appeared exactly sixty years ago, there have been few book-length biographies of Confucius in English and even fewer in which authors attempt to develop their narratives on the basis of reliable historical sources. Surprisingly, however, ever since the publication of Herlee G. (1998), Edward Slingerland (2003) and Burton Watson (2007) stand out in particular. ![]() Those of Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans) (1997), E. Over the past decade or so, several fine translations have appeared. In Quest of the Authentic Confucius John MakehamĮnglish-language translations of the Analects continue to be an important genre introducing readers to Confucius (trad. ![]()
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