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Mencius by Mencius
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with... -
The Life and Works of Mencius by Mencius 9781420978919
Booksplease Price: $22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420978919Author MenciusFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint -
The Story of Mencius by Weiding Li 9798985249040
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985249040Author Weiding LiFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Virtue Politics: Mencius on kingly rule (372-289 BC) by Mingyuan Hu 9781739115616
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.62An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before... -
The Life and Wisdom of Mencius by Cai Xiqin 9787800528330
Booksplease Price: $16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787800528330Author Cai XiqinFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint -
Mencius In Modern Perspectives: In English and Traditional Chinese by Raymond K Li 9798985120417
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Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi by Sungmoon Kim 9781108460569
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The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius by David Hinton
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $33.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint < -
Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning, a Translation of the Meng Tzu Tzu-I Shu-Cheng by Tai Chen 9780300046540
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The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood by Wu Yubi 9781624660429
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress and his setbacks, as he strives to integrate the... -
Xunzi: The Complete Text by Xunzi
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.74This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought... -
The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading Without Authority by Jocelyn Davis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Anyone can be a quiet influencer. But not everyone knows how."A tremendous and relevant read!" Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of... -
A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism: Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900 by Johannes Dafinger
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism offers new insights into the history of right-wing extremism and violence in Europe, East and West, from 1900 until the present day. It is the first... -
Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Art of Effortlessness and the Surprising Power of Spontaneity Edward Slingerland 9780857863485
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A Guardian Best Book of 2014A 2014 Brain Pickings Best Book on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live MeaningfullyWhy is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming... -
Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait by Donald J. Munro
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.84In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For... -
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West by Tonio Andrade
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.78During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War - Europe's... -
The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China by Cynthia Joanne Brokaw 9780691608792
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and... -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell 9780691173047
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.75Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three... -
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $86.39Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.62A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount... -
The Constitution of Ancient China by Su Su Li 9780691171593
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $71.43How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of... -
Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar by Edwin G. Pulleyblank
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $70.98Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the... -
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch 9780691229607
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.75The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand... -
Xi Jinping's Adages:: A Guide to the Chinese Leader's Classical Allusions by China Central Television
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.62Where China's leadership and the sages of antiquity see eye-to-eye Since taking office, General Secretary Xi Jinping has promoted the 'Chinese Dream of National Rejuvenation' - a concept which... -
Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries by Mengzi
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.54Bryan Van Norden's new translation of the Mengzi (Mencius) is accurate, philosophically nuanced, and fluent. Accompanied by selected passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi--one of the most... -
Living Existence and Socio-Political Phenomena: Comparative Studies of Interdisciplinary Issues between East and West John Zijiang Ding 9783032145789
Booksplease Price: $218.63In this book, John Zijiang Ding reimagines comparative philosophy through the dual lenses of new comparativism and dialogism, offering a multidimensional, cross-cultural framework for philosophical... -
Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205222
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.89Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two predecessors, he wrote complete essays in which he... -
Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi by Xiusheng Liu 9780872206236
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.89Mengzi (Mencius) is known for his sophisticated views on human nature and moral psychology. These essays explore a range of philosophical ideas at the core of his moral philosophy and relate them to... -
Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205970
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $26.58This volume serves both as an introduction to the thought of Mengzi (Mencius) and Wang Yangming and as a comparison of their views. By examining issues held in common by both thinkers, Ivanhoe... -
The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) Sun Tzu 9780804848206
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the... -
Little Sprouts and the Dao of Parenting: Ancient Chinese Philosophy and the Art of Raising Mindful, Resilient, and Compassionate Kids by Erin Cline 9780393541519
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.04The ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius compared children to tender sprouts, shaped by soil, sunlight, water, and the efforts of patient gardeners. At times children require our protection, other... -
I Ching: The Book of Change: a New Translation by David Hinton 9780374536428
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text... -
Confucian Moral Self Cultivation by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205086
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical... -
Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition by Francisco J. Varela 9780804730334
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we... -
The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition by Daniel K. Gardner 9780872208261
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance--have been read and understood by the Chinese... -
Portraits of Integrity by Charlotte Alston 9781350040380
Booksplease Price: $53.78Portraits of Integrity depicts more than 20 historical, fictional and contemporary figures whose character or life raises questions about what integrity is and how it is perceived. Integrity might... -
Confucianism and American Philosophy by Mathew A. Foust
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.78A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.In this highly original work, Mathew A. Foust breaks new ground in comparative studies through his... -
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology by David Hinton
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.76With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed... -
The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai by Julia K. Murray
Booksplease Price: $209.80The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confucius' descendants buried the sage's robe and cap a...