The title might have been written by Mao himself. Instead, it was dictated by the revealing, intimate, neverbeforepublished recollections of Li Yinqiao, Mao'odyguard, and brought to light by the author Quan Yanchi. After fifteen years of devoted service, Li received thisrequest from Mao: "If what happens in my family is a secretto others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about mewhile I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully whenyou do." For the first time, the personal, inside story ofChina's dynamic leader and world statesman is told rathelife and thought of Mao, the husband, father, radeinarms, the peasant's son. The recollections, only now madepublic in English, provide the reader with a refreshinglydifferent perspective from any of the many other worksabout Mao, Highlighting the book are photographs, published here for the first time.
《孟子今译(汉英对照)》经文,依据朱子《集注》用繁体字排列;英文部分,则基于英国汉学家JamesLegge(1815—1897)的《中国经典》(TheChineseClassics)译本而修订。同《论语》一样,《孟子》也以语录为体裁,记述了孟子的大量言行。特别是其中的对话,反映了孟子丰富的政治伦理思想,以及他对世事的认知和观点、见解和主张,中肯而尖锐,含义深刻,且具有现实意义。