"The Analects (Lunyu) is the core text in the Confucian canon and the first of the essential "four books" of Confucian philosophy. This translation-decades in the making-by one of China's most senior and well respected translators bears the imprimatur of China's cultural and education ministry.Wusun Lin is one of China's foremost translators and cultural ambassadors with a career spanning over five decades. He is adjunct professor of journalism and communications at Tsinghua University, executive vice president of the Translators Association of China, and editor-in-chief of Chinese Translation Journal"--

"This new translation of the Concfucian Analects (Lunyu), the key book in Confucian studies. Professor Lin Wusun, one of China's foremost translators, has prepared this exhaustively researched version which will be regarded as the new standard"--