Van norden version of october 14, 1997 mengzi was a chinese philosopher of the fourth century b. If large shoes were of the same price with small shoes, who would make them. Mencius, a new translation arranged and annotated for the general reader. The translation of mencius is relatively late among the four books, but as a masterpiece of chinese philosophy and literature, mencius has been translated. Mengzi full text database, fully browsable and searchable online. A confucian sage second only to confucius, mencius articulated, defended, and developed confucianism. The cost of a translation depends on various factors, the largest ones being the length of the text to be translated, i.
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