Confucian Discourses of Master Chao

Written in an age of fierce debate over the meaning of the Classics, this compact yet powerful text gathers reflections on the Spring and Autumn Annals, Poetry, Documents, ritual, moral cultivation, filial piety and the proper transmission of the Confucian Way. Again and again, Chao Yuezhi asks how the teachings of the sages can be preserved without distortion.

The ritual codes, philosophical discourses, educational primers and religious classics that shaped Chinese civilization for over two millennia. Where the narrative classics tell China’s stories, these texts encode its institutions, its ethics and its inner life.