The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book

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Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousa

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Four Books: In this book, we include Great leaning, The Doctrine of Mean, The analects, and Mencius, which was traditionally called Four Books.