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Economic Principles of Confucius and His School
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work 'The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School' was originally written and published in English in 1911 as Chen Huan-Chang's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. As the original text was composed in English, this 1911 publication constitutes the first English edition of the work, and no prior or subsequent translations from another language exist because English is the source language.
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Confucius was not just a moral philosopher; he was an economic strategist. This book reveals the forgotten system of governance that tied human virtue directly to national wealth.