Confucius and the Analects Revisited

Michael Hunter, Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. His 2017 monograph, Confucius Beyond the Analects (Brill), explores the breadth and history of early Confucius literature.Martin Kern is the Greg (‘84) and Joanna (P13) Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He publishes widely on the textual, ritual, and political culture of early China.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMichael Hunter and Martin Kern1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of LunyuJohn Makeham2 The Lunyuas an Accretion TextRobert Eno3 The Lunyuas Western Han TextMichael Hunter4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional ViewPaul R. Goldin5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and FailureJoachim Gentz6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo LunyuManuscriptsPaul van Els7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early ChinaMatthias L. Richter8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu TextsMark Csikszentmihalyi9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han LunyuEsther Klein10 Kongzi as Author in the HanMartin KernIndex>