Han Ying's Illustrations of the Book of Songs

Every story ends with a line of poetry. Han Ying, a Han scholar of the Book of Songs, gathered more than three hundred anecdotes, sayings and short discourses about rulers, ministers, sages and ordinary people, and closed each with a quotation from the Songs that sums up its moral. Here are Confucius and his disciples, the ministers of the Warring States, filial sons and loyal servants, and the wise women who correct their husbands. The book is lively, varied and full of memorable scenes, a treasury of early Chinese moral storytelling. This complete new English translation gives all ten books in clear modern English, with the closing verses rendered as verse. Names are given in modern pinyin and technical terms are rendered plainly, so this foundational text can be read straight through in natural English by anyone curious about the roots of Chinese culture.