MR. FABER is already well known in the field of Chinese studies by his digest of the doctrines of Confucius. In the present volume he gives us a systematic digest of those of Mencius, the greatest ...

Confucius’s follower Mencius declared that the worst of unfilial acts was a failure to have descendants (Mencius 4A.26). In later centuries this emphasis on the necessity of sons led many to be ...

This shows Confucius was serious about meals. Even if simple food were involved, the attitude had to be serious. In his writings, Mencius said that peoples’ demand for delicious food was ...

A systematic reconstruction of the political theories of two of the leading classical Confucian thinkers, Mencius and Xunzi ... as a leading contemporary political theorist and scholar of Confucianism ...