Mencius
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- 想系统通读《孟子》原文、又需要导读与译注辅助的普通读者
- 对儒家思想、中国传统文化有兴趣的入门读者与学生
- 关注“民本”“仁政”“性善”等观念当代意义的思考型读者
- 需要常备一本可随时翻检、查名句的国学爱好者
Not a good fit for
- 需要繁复历代注疏、做专门文献考据的研究者
- 只想读轻松故事与短句鸡汤、不愿面对原文的读者
- 寻找儿童注音版或绘本化国学启蒙读物的家长
Reading tips
- 先读黄俊杰的《孟子》导读，建立孟子的时代背景与核心问题意识，再进入正文。
- 可按十四卷顺序通读，也可从《梁惠王》《尽心》入手，先感受孟子论政与论心的两端。
- 读每卷前先自行朗读原文一遍，再对照译注与点评，留意自己理解与注解的差异。
- 善用书末名句索引，把散见各卷的同一主题（如“浩然之气”“义利之辨”）串起来重读。
About the publisher
Founded in 1988 and affiliated with China CITIC Group, CITIC Press focuses on business and economics, social sciences, literature and children's books, with common categories covering social sciences, finance, literature, Eastern philosophy and literary appreciation. Its library holds 91 titles, including Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens trilogy, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Wu Xiaobo's Thirty Years of Strife: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008, Nelly Sachs's The Weight of Butterflies: Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs, as well as New Interpretations of the Analects and Chiang Hsun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber. Its authors and translators include Lin Junhong, Ba Shusong, Chen Li and Chang Fen-ling. Overall, the press introduces influential works in finance and social sciences while balancing classic translation and local appreciation in literature and Eastern philosophy, combining academic depth with accessible reading.
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- CITIC Classics of Chinese Studies
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About the author
Huang Chun-chieh, born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1946, is a historian and Confucian scholar whose research centers on East Asian Confucianism, historiography, and general education. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from National Taiwan University and later received his doctorate from the University of Washington in the United States. A distinguished chair professor at National Taiwan University and an elected member of the European Academy, he has written extensively on the transmission and transformation of Confucianism in East Asia, an approach reflected in works such as East Asia from the Perspective of Intellectual History. He has also reflected on the place of university education, as seen in General Education in Universities in the Age of Globalization; the inclusion of a practical legal guide on labor and employment issues shows his writing reaches across social culture, education, and law.
Mencius, whose personal name was Ke and courtesy name Ziyu, was a native of the State of Zou (present-day Zoucheng, Shandong) during the Warring States period. A major representative of Confucianism, he was later honored as the "Second Sage" and is often mentioned together with Confucius as "Confucius and Mencius." He advocated the theory that human nature is good, holding that people are innately inclined toward goodness, and proposed the political ideas of benevolent governance and that "the people are the most important, the ruler the least." Mencius traveled among the states to promote his teachings but was not put in important office by the rulers of his time. In his later years he taught and wrote with his disciples, and his sayings and deeds were compiled into the seven chapters of the Mencius, which was included in the Four Books during the Southern Song dynasty and became one of the Confucian classics. This site holds seven related works, covering categories such as Eastern philosophy, culture, examinations, and classic works; among them, the Mencius and compilations of Chinese classics are the most common, reflecting the enduring influence of his thought on later cultural education and the reading of classics.
