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The Book of Lord Shang. a Classic of the Chinese School of Law. (Paperback)
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The Book of Lord Shang. a Classic of the Chinese School of Law. (Paperback)
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The Book of Lord Shang was probably compiled sometime between 359
and 338 BCE. Along with the Han Fei-Tzu, it is one of the two
principal sources of Legalism, a school of Chinese political
thought. Legalism asserts that human behavior must be controlled
through written law, rather than ritual, custom or ethics, because
people are innately selfish and ignorant. The law is not effective
when it is based on goodness or virtue; it is effective when it
compels obedience. This is essential to preserve the stability of
the State. Reprint of Volume XVII in Probsthain's Oriental Series.
With a Chinese index and an index of names and references. "The
Book of Lord Shang or Shang-tzu is said to consist of 29
paragraphs, of which the text for nos. 16, 21, 27, 28 and 29 being
no longer extant. The translation of Prof. Duyvendak therefore
covers only twenty-four paragraphs and is based on an edition
published by Yang Wan-li in 1793, which was reprinted by the
Che-chiang-shu-chu in 1876 in the "Collection of Twenty-two
Philosophers." Of all the editions published before or after that
date, this is the best known. (...) The Chinese text of the Book,
like many other ancient writings, is obscure in some parts and
corrupt in others. (...) The reviewer is therefore forcibly struck
by the faithfulness, definiteness and clearness of Dr. Duyvendak's
translation." --13 Chinese Soc. & Pol. Sci. Rev. 459-460, 462
1929. J.J.L. Duyvendak 1889-1954] was an interpreter for the Dutch
embassy in Peking from 1912-1918. In 1919 he became a lecturer in
Chinese at the University of Leiden. He was the author of China's
Discovery of Africa; Lectures Given at the University of London on
January 22 and 23, 1947 (1949) and edited and translated several
works, including The Diary of His Excellency Ching-shan; Being a
Chinese Account of the Boxer Troubles by Shan Jing (1924). He
established the Sinological Institute at the University of Leiden
in 1930. It is now one of the leading libraries for Chinese Studies
in the Western world.
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