Lionel Giles: 5 books

This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes. The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISCIPLES GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS INDIVIDUAL VIRTUE CONFUCIUS' ESTIMATE OF OTHERS CONFUCIUS...

THE object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West—the old world of Thought and the new of Action. In this endeavour, and in their own sphere,...

The object of the Editor of this series is a very definite one. He desires above all things that these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will between East and West. He hopes that they will contribute to a fuller knowledge of the great cultural heritage of the East, for only through real understanding...

If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu who flourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of civilisation had steadily advanced. With chagrin he saw that...

De l’habileté dans le gouvernement des Troupes. Sun-tse dit: Ayez les noms de tous les Officiers tant généraux que subalternes; inscrivez-les dans un catalogue à part, avec la note des talents & de la capacité de chacun d’eux, afin de pouvoir les employer avec avantage lorsque l’occasion...