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Article: The Manchu exegesis of the 'Lunyu.'
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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GIVEN THE PROMINENT PLACE of Confucius in Chinese culture and society, one would expect that the text most directly associated with him, i.e., the Lunyu or Analects, would have been the first of the Confucian classics to have been translated by Manchus eager to familiarize themselves with Chinese civilization.(1) It is notable that among the four completed and five unfinished Manchu translations of Chinese works done by the eminent translator Dahai (ob. 1632),(2) only one belongs to the Confucian classics.(3) The fact that he did not complete his translation of the Mencius would seem to indicate the lower priority accorded to it.
If the translation of the Confucian ...