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the collection of critical biographies of chinese thinkers, under the general editorship of the late honorary president of nan jing university, professor kuang yaming, is the largest-scale project of research materials on chinese thinkers undertaken since the beginning of the twentieth century. standing on the shoulders of this great man and other 200 well-known chinese professors, this collection of concise chinese-english version is not only based on aprofound academic foundation, but also exhibits a brand new feature which is the virtue of explaining the profound in a simple way, hence leading readers to mastery of the contents; it also incorporates a refined principle of selection, a simple mode of evaluation and commentary, and a moving narration of the stories and their wisdom.

confucius, the first great educator in chinese history and the most important thinker and the founder of confucianism, is revealed as a man of flesh and blood, of passions and aspirations, of triumphsand tragedies, and of surpassing cultural and intellectual import.