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I'm a big fan of the illustrator/author and have five other books in the series (Zen Speaks, Tao Speaks and Zhuangzi Speaks are some I love to read and re-read). This book starts with a lengthy biography and then has snippets of wisdom, but few of them are really lessons. Confucius often comes across as someone not to look up to, and very few of the stories seem to have a point.

The illustrations are beautiful, but the message is very disappointing. I will be donating this book to my local library, but treasure all the other Tsai Chih Chung books I own. As an aside, the most valuable bit of advice I got was roughly this: "look to copy the things you admire in others, look to change the things you find fault with in others."


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Confucius Speaks Words to Live By Tsai Chih Chung Brian Bruya Books Reviews

Easy to read and understand. For those who like to know more about Confucious philosophy but dont know where to start, pick this book.
This book contains all the basic philosophy of the great master.
a very nice book, a must have
One of the best things about this book is it puts a face on Confucius and, more importantly, his disciples. It's difficult to read The Analects (which this book uses a few sayings from) and keep straight who's who; this book helps a lot. The last section with a brief bio on a few of the disciples is fantastic. I can find no other source to compare to this. Now when I read The Analect I see the faces from this book when different people are mentioned. My only complaint is that different translations of Confucius' work seem to use slightly different names then those used in this book. It can be a bit confusing when this book is the first one you read, but I would still HIGHLY recommend it.
This book was wonderful! While I especially recommended it for beginners who are new to the teachings of Confucius, I know this book will surely be interesting to anyone. The first time I picked this comic book up, I read through 60 pages without putting it down again. The first section of the book is about the events in Confucius' life, while the second section deals with the Analects. Although I'm just a beginner to the teachings of Confucius, these comics have definitely captured my interest, and left me wanting to know more about Confucius' wisdom and philosophy. The cartoons give you various little snippets of Confucius' ideology, and leave you highly interested in learning more on each topic. I'm glad I started off with this book. Now I'm reading more comprehensive books on Confucianism; however, I will always have this little comic book to pull of the shelf and flip through.... time and time again.
The Cartoon Chinese Philosophy books of this series interest me for two reasons I like Chinese History and I have to teach it to high school kids.
On a personal level I enjoy reading through these books and find it much more useful than some of the straight translations even though they may be more complete and more pleasing to academics. In addition to the Confucius book, I have enjoyed both Daoist books and the version of the Art of War.
As a teacher, I like this book even better. New York State requires high school kids to have 2 years of world history. In this new political correct world, world history is no longer dominated by Europe. In fact, must of the New York State exam is about Asia and Africa. Thus Confucianism is a very important concept to teach.
Filial Piety, the concept of order and relationships, and the 5 Confucianian relationships are extremely important. But they are not fun things to the average teenager. There are many lessons we can get from Confucius as adults, for kids its a bit harder. However, these comic books make teaching Confucius so much easier and effective. The kids like to read them and they get so much more from them.
So in short, yes this is not the complete Confucius. But for anyone who wants to read a visually pleasing edition or teaches this is quite good.
the book was in good condition but half of it was a biography, the rest was isolated sayings without comment or explanations, out of context. I wanted to use it as a supplemental learning tool in the classroom. It wouldn't work.
I love it.
I'm a big fan of the illustrator/author and have five other books in the series (Zen Speaks, Tao Speaks and Zhuangzi Speaks are some I love to read and re-read). This book starts with a lengthy biography and then has snippets of wisdom, but few of them are really lessons. Confucius often comes across as someone not to look up to, and very few of the stories seem to have a point.

The illustrations are beautiful, but the message is very disappointing. I will be donating this book to my local library, but treasure all the other Tsai Chih Chung books I own. As an aside, the most valuable bit of advice I got was roughly this "look to copy the things you admire in others, look to change the things you find fault with in others."