Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius. Episode 5, The Provenance of the Analects.
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Robert André LaFleur
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016.
Archaeological discoveries were key to transforming scholarly understanding of early Chinese texts. In this lecture with the feel of a detective story, unearth the oldest version of the Analects (bamboo fragments found in a tomb in north-central China) and discover why there's no one single version of this world classic.