Analects of Confucius, The

In this translated and annotated version, a complete analysis is provided of early Chinese society, of the processes which were at work within it and of the outside forces to which it reacted. The literary documents are scanty and uncertain, as knowledge of the period is, of yet, incomplete. Translator's note: "All that I have attempted in the following pages is to arrange such information as is accessible under a series of disconnected headings, in a convenient order, but without pretence of unity or logical sequence." Arthur Waley is the translator.