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MENCIUS
ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICE
Little is known about
MENCIUS
other than what can be gathered from the book named after
him. He was, perhaps, born a century or so after the death of Confucius, and it is likely
that he died before the end of the fourth century
BC
. In his old age Mencius travelled from
one state to another, hoping vainly to convert the feudal princes of the day to his view of
man and morality. For a thousand years the Me
ncius, as part of the Four Books, was read
by every schoolboy. There is no doubt that the influence exerted by Mencius over the
development of Confucian thought is second only to Confucius.
D. C. LAU
read Chinese at the University of Hong Kong and in 1946 he went to Glasgow
where he read philosophy. In 1950 he joined the School of Oriental and African Studies in
London to teach Chinese philosophy. He was appointed in 1965 to the then newly created
Readership in Chinese Philosophy and in 1970 became Professor of Chinese at the
University of London. In 1978 he returned to Hong Kong to take up the Chair of Chinese
Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1989, upon his
retirement, he was appointed Professor Emeritus and started the monumental task of
computerizing the entire body of extant ancient Chinese works. A series of some sixty
concordances is scheduled to be completed by 2005.
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Mencius
Translate d with an Introduction and Note s by
D. C. LAU
REVISED EDITION
PENGUIN BOOKS
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