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Title: for academics only ???
Review: In this book the original chinese text and extensive footnotes take up about two thirds of each page, the remainder has to suffice for the english translation. This does not make for an easy read so unless you are a dedicated scholar I would look elsewhere for Mencius's views. That is what i will be doing, passing this version on to the people at Goodwill charities, I hope they can make better use of it. An academic might well give this a 5 star rating, and perhaps i should have read the description more carefully, but as a lay reader I found this book far too specialized.
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