Original Analects

E. Bruce Brooks is Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published studies on various aspects of textual analysis in Chinese and English.A. Taeko Brooks is the coauthor, with E. Bruce Brooks, of Chinese Character Frequency Lists and with him was the cofounder in 1993 of the Warring States Working Group.

The Original Analects is a remarkable book that ranks among the most significant and impressive works on Chinese thought ever published in English. Journal of Asian Studies With the publication of this translation, scholars now have a fully developed interpretation of a single text with which to test the Brooks' hypotheses. Undoubtedly we have not heard the last or even the definitive word on dating texts in early China. But the Brooks should be credited with pushing the field one great step further along in its development. Pacific Affairs The most exciting study of the Lun yu yet published in a Western language. Its potential implications are monumental, ranging from a rewriting of our understanding of early Confucianism and the nature of intellectual transmission in early China. Chinese Review International Its insightful readings and interpretive strategies stand to enrich our overall understanding of the Analects and its traditions. -- Lisa Raphals International Studies in Philosophy

• Introduction The Original Analects (LY) Confucius Himself LY 4 The Early Circle LY 5 / LY 6 The Dzvngd Transformation LY 7 LY 8 LY 9 The Kung Transition LY 10 LY 11 LY 3 THe Hundred Schools LY 12 LY 13 LY 2 The Last Debates LY 14 LY 15 A Private Interlude LY 1 LY 16 Return to Court LY 17 LY 18 The Conquest of Lu LY 19 LY 20 Appendices 1: The Accretion Theory of the Analects 2: Developmental Patterns in the Analects 3: A Window on the Hundred Schools 4: Confucius and His Circle 5: A reading of LY 1-4 in Text Order Apparatus Works Cited Romanization Equivalence Table Interpolations Finding List Index Afterword