disciples one specifically being his grandson. The Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi and his edited versions of the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean influenced the Chinese society to place much more attention on these and two other books creating the Four Books. Following the decision of the Yuan dynasty (followed by the Ming and Qing) to make the Five Classics and the Four Books the orthodox texts of the Confucian traditions, they were the standard textbooks for the state civil examination, from 1313 to 1905, which every educated person had to study intensively. Consequently, the Book of Rites and two of its by-products were large integral parts of the Chinese beliefs and industry for many centuries. Contents Translations Legge, James (1885). Sacred Books of the East, volumes 27 and 28. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [complete translation] J. M. Callery (1853). Li-Ki, ou Mémorial des rites, traduit pour la première fois du chinois et accompagné de notes, de commentaires et du texte original [Li-Ki, or Memorial of Rites, translated for the first time from Chinese and accompanied by notes, comments and the original text] . Paris: Imprimerie Royale, Benjamin Duprat, librairie de l'institut. [incomplete translation] Couvreur, Séraphin (1913). Li Ki, ou Mémoires sur les bienséances; texte Chinois avec une double traduction en Francais et en Latin [Li Ji, or Dissertation on Proprieties; Chinese text with a double translation in French and Latin], volumes 1 and 2. Hokkien: Mission Catholique. [complete translation] References Bibliography Buckley Ebrey, Patricia. Confucianism and the Family Rituals in Imperial China. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991, Chen, Jingpan. Confucius as a Teacher. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1990, Confucius; James Legge; Chʻu Chai; Winberg Chai. Li Chi: Book of Rites. An encyclopedia of ancient ceremonial usages, religious creeds, and social institutions, New Hyde Park, N.Y., University Books [1967]. (originally published in 1885) Creel, H.G. Confucius and the Chinese Way. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1949 de Bary, Wm. Theodore, Wing-tsit Chan, and Buton Watson. Sources of Chinese Tradition. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1960, Holm, Jean, and John Bowker. Sacred Writings. London: Printer Publishers Ltd., 1994 Lin Yutang. The Wisdom of Confucius. New York: Random House, Inc., 1938 Puett, Michael. "Centering the Realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and Early Chinese Statecraft." in Elman, Benjamin A. and Kern, Martin, eds., Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, pp.129-154. Smith, Howard.