1 comments about Confucianism and Human Rights.

1. Great material, but MY GOD, this book needed to be gone over by a copy editor! What are publishing houses spending all their money on?

No comments about Confucian Spirituality, Volume 2 (World Spirituality).

No comments about HAGAKURE - Selections (The Way of the Samurai).

No comments about Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations.

No comments about ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG].

1 comments about Confucianism: A Short Introduction.

1. This is an excellent book by the wellknown specialist Professor Berthrong. It is very readable and I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject or for course text.

No comments about Tao Te Ching: Six Translations.

No comments about The Trouble with Confucianism (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values).

1 comments about Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: (The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean) (Penguin Classics).

1. I love Penguin Classics, and have since I was a teenager. Their translations of the Greek and Roman classics are my most prized books. So it was frustrating when I began learning about ancient China and realized all the great works out there that were just dying to be given the same treatment as Livy, Plato, etc.
   
   So they've finally gotten to this most basic of texts, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean. Together with the Analects and Mencius, these make up the 4 books that were a main part of the civil service exams in imperial China (along with the 5 Classics: the Books of Documents, Odes, Changes, Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals).
   
   One thing that should be changed about this translation is the use of Wade-Giles transcription instead of Pinyin. To me, Wade-Giles has always looked like a ridiculous attempt at phonetization - "Teng Hsiao-p'ing" instead of "Deng Xiaoping" Plus it is often misleading - the former Chinese leader's name starts with a "d" sound, not a "t" sound. I think Penguin needs to make it official policy to go to Pinyin, which is the standard usage in China and probably will be the VHS to Wade-Giles' Beta.
   
   I also hope Penguin will produce more of the Chinese works that are kicking around out there. So far, Oxford World Classics have been beating them in the Asian classics category (only barely, though). Penguin could do a lot to introduce some classics to Westerners, and erase the myth that there aren't as many ancient works from China as there are from Greece and Rome.
   
   I suggest Penguin publish the Book of Odes, Book of Documents, the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Tso Chuan, The Intrigue of the Warring States, the Conversations of the States, the Records of the Grand Historian, and Histories of the Former and Latter Han, all histories except the Book of Odes. These works would surely appeal to readers of Livy, Plutarch, Suetonius, Herodotus, and Thucydides. All it would take is a few footnotes and some maps to explain names and places a little. We shall see - but this book is a small step in the right direction.

1 comments about An Integrative Approach to Counseling: Bridging Chinese Thought, Evolutionary Theory, and Stress Management (Multicultural Aspects of Counseling And Psychotherapy).

1. "I imagine future thinkers in whom European-American indefatigability is combined with the hundredfold inherited contemplativeness of the Asians: such a combination will bring the riddle of the world to a solution. In the meantime the reflective free spirits have their mission: they are to remove all barriers that stand in the way of a coalescence of human beings." (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1876 from the book Nietzsche and Asian Thought by Graham Parkes.) It took over 100 years Friedrich, but the book was worth waiting for! Thank you professor Santee for making the "Bridge" so easy to cross. I felt like I was eavesdropping on a conversation between Eastern and Western thinkers.