Description: MASTER KUNG The Story Of Confucius CARL CROW HAMISH HAMILTON: LONDON 1937 First edition. ALL the world has heard of the great Chinese sage Confucius but few know of Master Kung though the two characters are embodied in the same person. Master Kung is the sincere, lovable, entirely human scholar and gentleman who was born in the sixth century before Christ, lived a blameless life, suffered more disillusionments and disappointments than usually fall to the lot of men and died feeling that his life had been a failure. Confucius was the creation of generations of later scholars who deified the man, interpreted his acts and sayings by methods which would justify this deification and so created an intellectual Frankenstein monster, a fleshless creature conceived and born between the covers of a text-book. The story of the life of Master Kung as told in the following pages does not represent any new discoveries regarding the facts of his life but is the first attempt to put all the known or generally accepted facts into a chronological order against the historical and social background of the period. The two main sources of information which have been drawn on are available to any student in translated form. One is found in the great historical works of the Chinese historian Sze Ma Chien, who was born a few centuries after the death of the sage. The other authority is the monumental work known as The Chinese Classics translated by the Aberdeen Missionary, James Legge. From the Preface. 24 x 16 cm. 346 pp. Good condition. Ex-Boots library, traces of a label removed from the front board and marked on the bottom edge, no other library marks. Cloth faded on the spine and fraying at the head. Hinges cracked. Previous owner's details on the front pastedown and newspaper cutting on the front free endpaper. Some foxing to the page edges. Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. The complete eBay Selling Solution.
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Author: C Crow
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Original/Facsimile: Original
Region: Asia
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Year Printed: 1937
