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> I took the paper and looked at the Chinese characters. They made an agreeable pattern upon it.
"Won't you also give me a translation?"
"Tradutore—tradittore," he answered. "You cannot expect me to betray myself. Ask one of your English friends. Those who know most about China know nothing, but you will at least find one who is competent to give you a rendering of a few rough and simple lines."
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《The Philosopher 》 William Somerset Maugham

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> THE present volume is a translation of one of the four Confucian canonical books called the Chung Yung, which has been translated by Dr. Legge as the ‘‘ Doctrine of the Mean.’ The Chinese word Chung means central—hence right, true, fair and square; and Yung means common, ordinary—hence universal. The two Chinese words therefore mean the true, fair and square, universal standard of right ; in short, the common-sense of right.
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The conduct of life, or, The universal order of Confucius : a translation of one of the four Confucian books hitherto known as The doctrine of the mean : Ku Hung Ming, M.A. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

60 p. ; 17 cm

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> Using the resources of a writer, he fought the world across the five continents. These were driven by his anguish and valiance. If Ku Hung-ming were to witness the Cultural Revolution and the Simplified Chinese Characters unleashed by the communists decades later that completely devastated Classical Chinese Culture, how much more would be his rage?..
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伍仟年 - Ku Hung-ming (辜鴻銘), a Scholar of East and West, and Papers from a Viceroy’s Yamen

Most of those who talked about Ku Hung-ming (辜鴻銘 1857-1928) like to repeat his eccentric conversations and behaviors, rarely on his learnings and convictions. Tales from the grapevine may entertain the public, yet they do not enable us to really know him. Ku Hung-ming was born in a time of traumatic...

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> Ku Hung-ming is only a picturesque instance of a person who is born a rebel.. Ku Hung-ming is witty. But his wit turns invariably upon a paradox. Now the essence of a paradox is that it should surprise by the opposition of its ideas to common notions. Here again, Ku Hung-ming shows up the quality of his mind – a mind that lives by resistance to what is generally accepted..

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The Late Mr. Ku Hung-Ming 辜鴻銘

The Late Mr. Ku Hung-Ming 辜鴻銘   The Late Mr. Ku Hung-Ming 辜鴻銘 August 30, 1934. Many must have been intrigued by that charming portrait of The Philosopher in Somerset Maugham’s On a Chinese Scr…

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