{"product_id":"reading-the-analects-today-9798855802801","title":"Reading the Analects Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, one of contemporary China's most prominent philosophers, Li Zehou, explores one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition, the \u003ci\u003eAnalects\u003c\/i\u003e of Confucius. While the book provides an introduction to the \u003ci\u003eAnalects\u003c\/i\u003e itself and to Confucianism in general, it also serves as an introduction to Li's own thought, particularly the ways in which he regarded the Confucian tradition as relevant to postrevolutionary contemporary China. Key topics include the role of Confucianism in the Chinese tradition and in contemporary China; Confucianism's quasi-religious, quasi-philosophical character; Li's views on emotion, morality, and fate in Confucianism; and his call for a separation of public social morality from private religious morality in modern China. Translated here by Maija Bell Samei, \u003ci\u003eReading the \"Analects\" Today\u003c\/i\u003e is among the most accessible of Li Zehou's works and will be of interest not only to philosophers but to scholars and students of both modern and traditional Chinese intellectual, social, and religious history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLi Zehou (1930-2021) \u003c\/b\u003ewas a philosopher who taught in both China and the United States. His many books include \u003ci\u003eA History of Classical Chinese Thought\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMaija Bell Samei \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eGendered Persona and Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e and the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Chinese Aesthetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, also by Li Zehou, and \u003ci\u003eSeven Lectures on Wang Guowei's Renjian Cihua\u003c\/i\u003e, by Florence Chia-ying Yeh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359085330706,"sku":"9798855802801","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e116368-a586-4cb8-ae3f-40d495106bb0.jpg?v=1770979687","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-the-analects-today-9798855802801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}