Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius

The Provenance of the Analects (1x5)

Air date: Dec 08, 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.