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2137
Confucius; Leys, Simon (trans) 
Analects of Confucius, The
New York, Norton, W W, & Company   1997 
xxxii,224pp; 20x13cm   Cloth with dustjacket

A discontinuous series of brief statements, short dialogues and anecdotes compiled by two generations of disciples, completed around 400BC. The translation is accompanied by a substantial commentary by the translator, Pierre Ryckmans, an Australian Belgian scholar, using the pseudonym Simon Leys