Journal of Contemporary Asia, August 1st, 1998
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS: TRANSLATION AND NOTES by Simon Leys (London: W.W. Norton, 1997) In the general public's concern for China there is a striking discrepancy between the interest vested in Confucianism and the relative neglect of its supposed originator Confucius. Confucianism was once cited as the cause for imperial China's longlasting economic and political stagnancy, as well as for its failure to react quickly to the challenges posed by 19th century Western onslaughts, or in short, for China's suppossed backwardness. For about fifty years, from the 1920s to the 1970s such accusation...
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