The Hundred Voices
For Further Reading

No general history of early China, and no survey of its intellectual history, is without serious problems due to misunderstanding of the nature of the source texts. That is the reason for the present volume. Accordingly, no recommendation for further reading in this category can be given. Readers wishing to think further about the subjects here raised may consult whatever comes to hand, but will need to be wary of continual authorship and dating problems.

Most of the readings in The Hundred Voices are drawn from a small number of larger works. Those wishing to pursue their acquaintance with those works can sometimes consult full translations. The same cautions apply, and the same problems will sometimes affect interpretation, but it is nevertheless helpful to see what these works contain. The suggestions below are in print as of this writing, or else will be available in most academic libraries. The links are to Amazon; purchasing used or new copies through that connection slightly benefits the Project; the cost to you is not increased.

Analects (Lun Yw). A historical translation, in order of the accretional process which produced the work, is available in E Bruce and A Taeko Brooks: The Original Analects (Columbia 1998). A finding list of interpolated passages (which have been relocated to the point in the sequence at which they were probably written, rather than left at the place where they were interpolated) is given at p325f. For a character text, see also James Legge: The Chinese Classics v1, widely available in a Dover reprint edition.

Chun/Chyou. See next. A complete translation of this unique text not hobbled by the presence of the Dzwo Jwan is in preparation by the present authors.

Dau/Dv Jing. Many

Dzwo Jwan. An almost complete translation is included in the fourth volume (Ch'un Ts'ew, with the Tso Chuen) of James Legge: The Chinese Classics. A Chinese text is included. Legge's romanization is based on a non-Mandarin form of Chinese; no mechanical conversion table is possible.

Gwandz. Rickett

Han Feidz. Liao

Jwangdz. Watson

Lw-shr Chun/Chyou. Knoblock and Riegel

Mencius. Legge

Mwodz. Mei. Supplemented by Graham

Shang-jywn Shu. Duyvendak

Shr. Waley; Legge. NB Karlgren

Shr Ji. Watson, both

Shu. Waley; Legge. NB Karlgren

Sundz. Griffith. Also Sawyer

Sywndz. Knoblock

Wu Chi. Sawyer

Yi. Many.

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