Mencius
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W.A.C.H. Dobson
About this book
The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into one of the streams of thought of the Chinese. This new translation, especially arranged and annotated aims at rendering an Archaic Chinese original in a modern and unadorned prose.
Author / Editor information
W.A.C.H. Dobson (1913-1982) was a professor of Chinese and Head of the Department of East Asiatic Studies at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a graduate in Oriental Studies from Oxford, of which university he was a Doctor of Letters. He wrote extensively on the Chinese language and is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as a number of books: The Civilization of the Orient; Late Archaic Chinese: a Grammatical Study; Early Archaic Chinese: A Descriptive Grammar; Mencius: a New Translation Arranged and Annotated for the General Reader; Late Han Chinese: the Archaic-Han Shift; and The Language of the Book of Songs.
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"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."
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter One. Mencius at Court
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Chapter Two. Mencius in Public Life
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Chapter Three. Mencius and His Disciples
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Chapter Four. Mencius and His Rivals
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Chapter Five. Comment on the Times
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Chapter Six. The Teachings of Mencius
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Chapter Seven. Maxims
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Notes and Finding List
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