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Mencius
A New Translation Arranged and Annotated for the General Reader
W.A.C.H. Dobson (Translated by)
9780802060570
Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1963
236 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.32 kg
"A new translation of this great classic has long been wanted and Mr. Dobson was especially qualified to make it. . . . [He] has produced an excellent rendering." - The Journal of Asian Studies
Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways and thoughts that condition their conduct. The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into one of the streams of thought of the Chinese. Indeed, the perceptive reader might well find that some ideas he though were new and alien in the new China have familiar echoes in Mencius. This new translation, especially arranged and annotated with the general reader in mind, has been made in the light of recent philological research. It aims at rendering an Archaic Chinese original in a modern and unadorned prose, and is intended for the general reader who is otherwise unfamiliar with Chinese authors and desires to understand what Mencius is about without encumbering the text with footnotes and technical apparatus which the specialist quite properly demands. While the text has been translated in its entirety its parts have been rearranged in a sequence which it is hoped will make them easier for the Western reader.