The Original Analects
Reviews and Comments

This work, the Project's first publication, occasioned much comment both before and after publication. We here give a list of comments known to us, whether from reviews or other sources. Click on a name to see the text in question. (Some material is duplicated from the web site of Thomas Carlson of Brussels, whose versions were sometimes abridged with the author's permission; these are marked by TC).

Prepublication Comments

• David Keightley, University of California at Berkeley, 1995
• Simon Leys [Pierre Ryckmans], Sydney University (Emeritus), 1997
• David S Nivison, Stanford University (Emeritus), 1998
• Frederick W Mote, Princeton University (Emeritus), 1998
• Dennis Grafflin, Bates College, 1998
• Aihe Wang, Purdue University, 1998

Reviews and Remarks
See the separate section for Responses to some reviewer criticisms

1998

• Li Dzv-hou (Appendix 2 to his Lun Yw Jin Du), April 1998
• Nathan Sivin (H-Asia), 20 Sept 1998
• B J Mansvelt Beck (IIAS Newsletter #17), Dec 1998

1999

• Victor Mair (Sino-Platonic Papers #90), Jan 1999
• Lionel Jensen (in: Boyd ed, Encyclopedia of Historians), Feb 1999
• John Makeham (China Review International), Spring 1999
• Dzv Syi (The Little Mermaid #4), 1999
  • reprinted in The China Press, 2000.09.23
• Eric Henry (Footnote in HJAS, v59 #1), 1999
• Benjamin Wallacker (Journal of Asian History, v33 #1), 1999
• Barend ter Haar (Comment on Home Page), 1999
• Jean-Pierre Diény (Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, ns v17), 1999
• John Henderson (Journal of Asian Studies, v58 #3), Aug 1999 [TC]
• T C Kline (Pacific Affairs, v72 #2), 1999 [TC]
• Whalen Lai (Asian Philosophy, v9 #3), Nov 1999 [TC]

2000

• Edward Slingerland (PEW, v50 #1), Jan 2000
• Linda Lam-Easton (Religious Studies Review, v26 #1), Jan 2000 
• Anne Cheng (Revue Bibliographique de la Sinologie)
• Alice W Cheang (The Review of Politics, v62 #2), Summer 2000
• Bryan W Van Norden (Journal of Chinese Religion)

2001

• David Schaberg (CLEAR), 2001
• Donald J Munro (Author's Note to the reprint of The Concept of Man in Early China), 2001
• Liu Xiaogan (Foreword to the above Munro reprint), 2001
• Jeffrey L Richey (Association for Asian Studies Newsletter, v64 #1), May 2001
• Kam Louie (Asian Studies Review, v25 #2), June 2001

2002

• Bryan W Van Norden (Introduction to Confucius and the Analects, 2002
• Lee Yearley (essay in the above work)

2003

• Lisa Raphals (International Studies in Philosophy v35 #4, 2003

2004

• Terry Kleeman (Journal of Chinese Religions #23 (2004) 29-45

2006

• Barend ter Haar (Revised Comment on Home Page), 2006

 

  

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