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Re: Re: Ming dynasty Chinese paintings???

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Jun 18, 2013 (02:26 AM)

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Rather than try to summarize the impact of Confucius and risk offense to his disciples with the unintended but inevitable implication of short shrift, I'll just quote the opening line from chapter two about the Great Sage, from my 1960 college text from Columbia University Press. It's title, "The Sources of Chinese Tradition (Volume I)", edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and compiled by him with collaboration of Wing-tsit Chan and Burton Watson.

"If we were to characterize in one word the Chinese way of life for the last two thousand years, the word would be 'Confucianism.'"

I seriously suggest you get the book. It contains pithy chapters on the movers and shakers who've shaped Chinese civilization since antiquity. Amazon has it in various formats, including Kindle.

If I'm sounding pedantic, perhaps I'm just obeying my Confucian urges to get a little respect by cloaking myself in professorial guise.

Best regards,

Bill H.

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