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E. N. Berthrong. What Would Confucius Do? Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others. New York: Marlowe and Company, 2005. xviii, 212 pp. Paperback $14.94, ISBN 1-56924-349-2. The scholar's professional hazard is becoming a pedantic pain in the posterior. In her new book, E. N. Berthrong argues that the Analects of Confucius contains a wealth of messages that could prove very helpful and important to our modern world if they were simply extracted from the wrapping of scholarly mumbojumbo that surrounds them. She no doubt has a point: it is a rare scholarly treatment of the Analects that is able to communicate the basic messages of the work to a layperson in a succinct and accessible fashion. This lively book, written in a popular, self-help style, succeeds in making important aspects of traditional Confucianism vivid for the contemporary reader in a way that more technical treatments simply could not match. In other respects, however, the popularization drive at times undermines the original goal: by turning Confucius into a self-help guru--a spokesman for "enlightened self-interest," dispensing practical advice on how to climb the corporate ladder effectively--some genuinely important messages that Confucianism has for the modern
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Apr 1, 2008
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