Featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship advances and examines debates surrounding the history of the Confucian Analects.

Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Michael Hunter and Martin Kern 1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of Lunyu  John Makeham 2 The Lunyuas an Accretion Text  Robert Eno 3 The Lunyuas Western Han Text  Michael Hunter 4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View  Paul R. Goldin 5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure  Joachim Gentz 6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo LunyuManuscripts  Paul van Els 7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China  Matthias L. Richter 8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts  Mark Csikszentmihalyi 9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu  Esther Klein 10 Kongzi as Author in the Han  Martin Kern Index >