Confucius's Analects

Zu-yan Chen is a professor of Chinese language and literature and director of the Confucius Institute at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the co-author of Li Bai and Du Fu: An Advanced Reader of Chinese Language and Literature and Chinese through Song.

"Confucius's Analects is an excellent textbook that fills a critical gap that is culturally rich, and provides a useful approach to teaching Chinese with the combination of modern and classical Chinese. The book also provides a creative stance at utilizing classical Chinese, historical idioms, and ways to expand vocabulary."-Kai Li, East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College "As students start Chinese learning earlier than in previous decades, many of them reach the advanced level half way through their college years if not sooner. An efficient textbook is needed for them to not only enhance their linguistic competence but also to probe into the Chinese intellectual tradition and cultural values to prepare them to be sophisticated communicators in the language. Prof. Zu-yan Chen's Confucius' Analects is tailor made to meet this need. Adopting entries from the influential classic, 論語 (Lunyǔ), as its main text, this book is also supplemented by essays written in modern Chinese language on relevant topics to further elucidate the significance of the main text. Furthermore, the author use both sets of texts to systematically introduce Chinese idioms, which were derived from traditional Chinese wisdom but widely used in modern Chinese language. The materials are well organized and precisely glossed. Most remarkable are the clearly guided exercises-including making use of the learned words and idioms, answer questions, writing compositions of expository and narrative essays, debate, web research and storytelling-that are astutely arranged to challenge students' active mental participation and cogent articulation. For an advanced Chinese language class, this is the textbook of my choice."-Madeline Chu, professor of Chinese language & literature, Kalamazoo College

• Preface Acknowledgments User's Guide Part One: Knowledge 1. Learning the WayPorridge Cakes 2. Love for LearningLamp of Fireflies 3. The Four ProhibitionsA Doctor-Traveler 4. Inferring by AnalogyTones of the Zither 5. The Ultimate JoyThe Plum Blossom Painter Part Two: Morality 6. Filial PietyGrandma and the Office 7. Righteousness and ProfitThe Promissory Notes 8. Three Introspections DailyCritics of an Emperor 9. Strength in AdversityA Determined Historian 10. The Long JourneyDeath of a Premier Part Three: Wisdom 11. Self-RelianceThe Taste of Gall 12. Three Beneficial FriendsThe Slashed Mat 13. Words and DeedsTalking in a Big Game 14. Advancing and RetreatingWorld and Island 15. Careers for ScholarsA Statesman of Four Reigns Part Four: Governance 16. Governing with VirtueA Palace without a Terrace 17. Sovereigns and SubjectsThree Visits to a Strategist 18. Exemplary LeadersThe Flying General 19. The Upright above the CrookedA Tattooed General 20. Economy and EducationThe Emperor's Dictionary AppendixEnglish Translation of the Analects Passages Indexes