Conversations with a lonely sage. Confucius

Some call him a symbol of the Chinese nation, others — a Teacher of teachers and a Great sage, while others consider him the greatest mystic. Or maybe he was just a philosopher, tired of negligent students, of rejection of his ideas, because the world never followed him? This book is an original exposition of the ideas and life story of Confucius, accompanied by excerpts from recordings of his sayings "Conversations and Judgments".  A wise, meditative and instructive story from the famous Russian sinologist, head of the HSE School of Oriental Studies, Director of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Maslov.