The “Discourses with Collected Commentaries” (Lunyu jizhu 論語集注, popularly “Analects”) is the second of the Four Books. This is the first chapter, which has never before been translated into English in full. Since the ancient discourses when included together with the medieval commentaries become a great confluence of the many “Confucians” (ru 儒), I have translated the title for this English edition as the “Discourses of Ru School.”

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Source: the “Four Books with Collected Commentaries,” Qing Dynasty imperial library edition. From Zhejiang University Library, scanned by China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL). Digitized and punctuated Chinese text is available at the Chinese Text Project.

Translated titles, from right to left:
[1] Imperially Commissioned: Complete Library of the Four Treasuries: Flourishing Growth Essentials (欽定四庫全書薈要)
[2] Classics Section (經部)
[3] Discourses Spoken, Collected Commentaries 《論語集注》
[4] Detailed Review Official: Principal Officer and Minister Ji, Xu Yikun (詳校官主事街臣徐以坤)