Confucius Meets Shakespeare is a book that matched the greatest wit of the western world with that of the east-each in its own tongue, preserving in full its own force; a book that puts side by side a poet from one world next to a poet from another, speaking the same thoughts and using their own words; to see Confucius juxtaposed against Shakespeare only to find their ideas overlapping rather than clashing; to find that great minds do proverbially...