Xunzi

Author: Sun Anbang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Basic Collection for Chinese Families · Volume of the Hundred Schools of Thought. This book is based on Qing Wang Xianqian's Collected Explanations of Xunzi. During the process of annotation and translation, it primarily references the collected explanations and annotations on Xunzi by Yu Yue, Liu Shipei, Luo Genze, Liang Qixiong, and Japanese Kubo Aizan. For the different interpretations and explanations of characters and words in various versions, one chosen based on the author's agreement is adopted, with no detailed notes provided. The complete work of Xunzi consists of thirty chapters, from which selected sections of twenty-two chapters including Admonishing Learning, Self-Cultivation, Chengxiang, and Fufan are provided with brief annotations and colloquial translations. Annotations focus on explaining difficult words and key terms concisely, and Pinyin romanization is added for challenging characters.