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Teaching Confucianism

OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008 224 PAGES, ISBN: 978-0195311600, PAPERBACK Reviewed by Thomas P. Dolan While any scholar or teacher of Chinese culture and philosophy is familiar with the classic works of literature of two millennia ago (Yijing, The Analects of Confucius, the Art of War and many others), these are often presented to students without the contexts in which they were developed. Doing so is like trying to explain Christianity to someone without reference to Juda...