An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying sovereigns. Mencian virtue politics has been pivotal to political thinking in China, though most appealing, it may be argued, to scholars.
From Mencius, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates four dialogues – ‘Goodness and Honour Suffice’, ‘How May the World Be in Peace’, ‘Protect the People’, and ‘Following Nature, People Are Able to Do Good’ – exemplary of this thinking.
This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.
£9.99
Author: Mencius 孟子 |
Translator: Mingyuan Hu |
Publisher: Hermits United |
Release Date: 27 March 2023 |
Series: Erstwhile |
Genre: Prose |
Language: English; traditional Chinese |
Pages: 64 |
Dimensions: 111 x 150 mm |
Format: Paperback |
ISBN: 978-1-7391156-1-6 |
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HU 01 — Toward Bravery and Other Poems
HU 02 — Late Roses and Early Snow
HU 05 — Virtue Politics: Mencius on kingly rule (372–289 BC)
HU 06 — Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313–238 BC)
HU 07 — Les Assassins de Confucius
HU 09 — The Assassins of Confucius
HU 10 — Realpolitik: Han Fei on mighty reign (280–233 BC)
HU 11 — Lament in Love: The verses of Qu Yuan (340–278 BC)
HU 12 — Worldly New Talk: The elegant, the eremitic, the extravagant (420–444 AD)
HU 14 — The Peking Opera Reform
HU 16 — Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth
HU 17 — Worldly New Talk II: The bold, the free, the untrammelled (420–444 AD)
HU 18 — Fou Lai. Un héros vaincu
HU 19 — Le détachement féminin rouge
HU 20 — The Red Detachment of Women
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