Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meanings

by Mansfield Freeman and Tai Chen

The Ch'ing scholar-thinker Tai Chen (1724-1777) was a passionate explorer. He loved words, and his most important philosophical treatise, the Meng Tzu tzu-I shu-cheng (An evidential study of the meaning of terms in the Mencius), is an exhaustive search for the meaning of the words first uttered by Mencius in the fourth century B.C. This book by Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman is the first complete and annotated English translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300046545
• ISBN13: 9780300046540
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"