Preface . . vii
Acknowledgments . . xi
User's Guide . . xiii

Confucius and the Analects . . xvii

PART I. KNOWLEDGE . . 1
1. Learning the Way . . 3
Porridge Cakes . . 7
2. Love for Learning . . 13
Lamp of Fireflies . . 16
3. The Four Prohibitions . . 23
A Doctor-Traveler . . 26
4. Inferring by Analogy . . 33
Tones of the Zither . . 36
5. The Ultimate Joy . . 43
The Plum Blossom Painter . . 46

PART II. MORALITY . . 53
6. Filial Piety . . 55
Grandma and the Office . . 58
7. Righteousness and Profit . . 65
The Promissory Notes . . 68
8. Three Introspections Daily . . 75
Critics of the Emperor . . 78
9. Strength in Adversity . . 85
A Determined Historian . . 88
10. The Long Journey . . 95
Death of a Premier . . 98

PART III. WISDOM . . 105
11. Self-Reliance . . 107
The Taste of Gall . . 110
12. Three Beneficial Friends . . 117
The Slashed Mat . . 120
13. Words and Deeds . . 127
Talking a Good Game . . 130
14. Advancing and Retreating . . 139
World and Island . . 142
15. Careers for Scholars . . 149
A Statesman of Four Reigns . . 152

PART IV. GOVERNMENT . . 157
16. Governing with Virtue . . 159
A Palace without a Terrace . . 162
17. Sovereigns and Subjects . . 169
Three Visits to a Strategist . . 172
18. Exemplary Leaders . . 179
The Flying General . . 182
19. The Upright above the Crooked . . 189
A Tattooed General . . 192
2O. Economy and Education . . 199
The Emperor's Dictionary . . 202

Appendix
English Translations of the Analects Passages . . 209
Vocabulary Index . . 223
Proper Names Index . . 257
Function words Index . . 265
Idiom Index . . 283
Vocabulary Expansion Index . . 289