by Lin Yutang · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9787560086330
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«The Wisdom of Confucius» (Kongzi de zhi hui) is Lin Yutang's essay on the philosophy of Confucius.
The work brings together essential Confucian texts: a sketch of the life of Confucius, the Chungyung or doctrine of the central harmony, the Tahsueh on ethics and politics, and a selection of aphorisms from the Analects. Lin Yutang thus presents a vision of Chinese ethics and wisdom.
The 2009 edition, paperback, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, has 231 pages and text in Chinese.
Recommended for those who want to approach Confucianism through Lin Yutang's selection and commentary.
Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor. A prolific bilingual writer in both Chinese and English, he was celebrated for pioneering a humorous prose style in modern Chinese literature and for serving as a cultural bridge between China and the West, most notably through My Country and My People (1935) and his English translations of Chinese classics. As a linguist, he compiled a series of ESL textbooks for Chinese learners in the 1930s and later produced an English–Chinese dictionary in the 1970s. As an inventor, he designed a Chinese typewriter, which was patented in the United States in 1952, though it was never mass-produced. From 1940 to 1973, Lin received six nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
