The Four Books
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The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
By Daniel K. GardnerTherefore it is said, “The Son of Heaven cannot give the empire to another. ... When friendship with other virtuous gentlemen in the empire is no longer enough, he proceeds to a consideration of the ancients. Reciting their poetry and ...
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The Four Books
By Yan LiankeDivided into four narratives, The Four Books tells the story of the Great Famine, one of China’s most devastating and controversial periods.
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The Four Books: The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mear [i.E. Mean] Confucian Analects [and] the Works of Mencius
By James Legge, Confucius Confucius, Mencius MenciusThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
By Daniel K. GardnerThis compact volume shows how the Four Books -- the Greater Learning, the Analects, the Mencius, and the Doctrine of the Mean -- have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century.
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The Four Books: The Classic Texts of Confucianism in Chinese and English
By Zhu XiHe compiled the texts to form a curriculum of study for scholar officials. The Four Books could be considered the scripture of Confucianism [and] had a tremendous impact upon the Confucian tradition and on the Chinese people and culture."--
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The Four Books: A Novel
By Yan LiankeSet inside a labor camp during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Booklist calls The Four Books a “rich and complex novel,” from “China’s most heralded and censored modern writer” (The South China Morning Post).