Publisher's Synopsis
The "Kung-ts'ung-tzu" (the "K'ung Family Masters Anthology") is a collection of writings, most of them discourses, that narrate the lives and scholarly activities of one lineage of Confucius's family, beginning with the Warring States period and continuing with the establishment of the Ch'in dynasty and the succeeding Han dynasty.;The book is divided into three parts. The introductory part deals with the Confucian character and literary mood of the K'ung-ts'ung-tzu. It embeds the philosophical position of the text within the Confucian tradition and discusses the varied content of the text as a whole, characterizing the gloomy mood that prevails in it. The second part consists of an annotated translation of chapters 15-23 of the text. The third part is a computational reconstruction of the K'ung-ts'ung-tzu's 11th chapter, a concise dictionary entitled "Hsiao Erh-ya".
