Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is delighted to announce that it will publish Yu Dan’s Thinking of The Analects of Confucius (working title) in English for the first time in 2009

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is delighted to announce that it will
publish Yu Dan’s Thinking of The Analects of Confucius (working title)
in English for the first time in 2009

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 17, 2008 – Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is
delighted to announce that it will publish Yu Dan’s Thinking of The
Analects of Confucius (working title) in English for the first time in
2009. This comes as the result of months of close co-operation
between Macmillan Publishers and Zhonghua Book Company.

When Professor Yu Dan presented the first of her 7 lectures entitled
Explanations of The Analects of Confucius on China’s CCTV10, her first
book Yu Dan’s Thinking of The Analects of Confucius immediately sold
12,600 copies in the 24 hours following the broadcast. Within a month
the book had sold 1.5 million copies and within a year it had sold
over 4 million copies across China.

Yu Dan’s Thinking of The Analects of Confucius became an instant
Chinese phenomenon and Professor Yu Dan became a household name for
all Chinese. Known as “The Beauty Professor”, Yu Dan is young,
attractive and female; here, she offers a radically new insight into
the ancient wisdom that has defined the lives and culture of literally
billions of people in the world today.

Yu Dan’s Thinking of The Analects of Confucius is often popularly
described as the ‘Chinese Chicken Soup for the Soul’.

The Analects of Confucius, a collection of Confucius’s words and deeds
recorded by his disciples, is the most important book in Chinese
history. For thousands of years, Confucius’s ideas have been seen as a
model on which rulers should pattern their rule and individuals
regulate their own conduct. Confucian classics such as the Analects
dominated Chinese culture for almost two and a half thousand years,
right up until the early years of the twentieth century.

China is a country in the grip of profound and overwhelming change. Yu
Dan’s fresh, modern and controversial interpretation of the Analects
presents a clear alternative view to which the new generation of
Chinese can relate and understand. Yu Dan brings Confucius’s ideas up
to date and back to life, showing that they are highly relevant to the
modern world – in fact they are of as much value to us now as they
were over two thousand years ago.

This book was written for a Chinese audience adapting to the changes
of modern life. It is just as relevant to people living in the West,
who face similar problems and conflicts in their own lives. It is no
coincidence that many of the stories Yu Dan uses to illustrate her
points come from western sources, everything from folk tales to
Hegel.

Professor Yu Dan

Yu Dan is a 41 year old media scholar based at Beijing Normal
University. Between studying the ancient analects of Confucius and
giving television lectures she’s a media advisor for some of China’s
best television producers.

It’s reported that the first print run for Yu Dan’s Thinking of The
Analects of Confucius was 600,000 copies, which was the biggest
initial print run for such a book in China at that time.

Yu Dan said, “To energise an ancient classic in the modern age, we
must explain it and comment on its contemporaneity. When I was a
student, such classics were simply to be worshipped, demanding our
spending a whole life in researching and absorbing its essence. But
now, as we need to spread the understanding of the classic, I think we
should get rid of this stance of worship. We should make it easier to
understand, and apply it to ordinary life.”

Toby Eady, Yu Dan’s literary agent, comments, Yu Dan’s Thinking of The
Analects of Confucius is the quintessence of Chinese history from the
ancient scriptorium.

Yu Dan shares, in her own experience, with the people of China
Confucius and Mencius. Through the book Yu Dan’s Thinking of The
Analects of Confucius the world will understand the ideological root
of the Chinese people and their cultural heritage.

Toby believes that the Macmillan Group’s long-term cooperation with
China's educational publishing industry, as well as its strong
presence in the international markets, will provide favorable
conditions for the promotion of the title, not only in China but also
all over the world. It will also introduce to global literature the
profound and valuable teachings of Confucius and Mencius.

Esther Tyldesley will be the translator of this book. As Toby
explains, Esther Tyldesley’s understanding of the Chinese culture is
not limited to textbooks nor to the academic field. She is one of the
very few Chinese-English translators who understands the lives of
Chinese people in rural villages and the Chinese streetscape. She is
celebrated for her respect and thoroughness to the Chinese cultures
and traditions. She also has the humility and perseverance to pursue
knowledge of China and the profound desire to share that with the
western world.

Toby views that a good piece of translated work has to be a
reproduction of the original culture in the reading language. It is
not a Chinese dish with extra sweet and sour flavorings added so as to
be tailor-made for the western reader. The world needs each one’s own
characteristics to understand and to communicate, rather than accept
duplication and to agree.

Ms. Esther Tyldesley (Translator)

Esther has a BA in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MA in Applied
Translation Studies (Chinese) from Leeds. She spent four years in
Guizhou Province, where she worked at a rural teachers' college for
Voluntary Service Overseas, and she still has strong links with that
part of China. Esther works in both Asian Studies and Translation
Studies, and has been teaching Chinese language and Chinese-English
translation at Edinburgh University since 2004. Her interests include
translation to and from Chinese, contemporary Chinese literature, the
teaching of Chinese language and on southwest China.

She works as a translator, and her work includes The Good Women of
China, Sky Burial, Miss Chopsticks. She is also involved in various
dictionaries translation projects with HarperCollins and Oxford
University. The Good Women of China (English version) was one of the
very few translated works which became a million-copy bestseller.

Esther now lives in Edinburgh with her Chinese husband.

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> http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/ca085dc133ad3cae
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> Abianchen is not Chinese. She is a fraud, and above all, she is damn
> UGLY!
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/64156901@N00/3415206204/
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> On Nov 21, 1:27 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" <abianc...@my-deja.com>
> wrote:
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>
>
> > Macmillan Publishers Ltd. is delighted to announce that it will
> > publish Yu Dan's Thinking of The Analects of Confucius (working title)
> > in English for the first time in 2009
>