Wing-tsit Chan, now Anna R. D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy at Chatham College, is also Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy Emeritus, Darmouth College.
"[E]normous chunks of the philosophers, and the commentary reduced
to the essential minimum. Mr Chan's theme is Chinese humanism,
because this is the unavoidable theme of Chinese philosophy in
nearly all ages. Heroically he has translated his philosophers
himself, with the result that for the first time the entire map is
seen through a consistent eye. 'Source Book': no. Please look on it
instead as a massive and superb anthology."---Robert Payne,
Saturday Review
"[Mr. Chan's] brilliant scholarship has enabled him to strike a
balance between modern, medieval and ancient periods as well as
between Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and for the first time a
leading Chinese scholar has carefully weighed the influences and
importance's as well as the themes of many of the Chinese
philosophers."---John Coombes, Columbus Enquirer
"[T]he Neo-Confucian translations in particular are the most
reliable yet made, and show a familiarity with classical allusions,
early colloquial idiom and the turns of Neo-Confucian thought which
no Western translator can hope to emulate."---A. C. Graham, Journal
of the American Oriental Society
"[T]he volume is virtually an encyclopedia."
*Journal of Bible and Religion*
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