Hsieh Liang-tso and the Analects of Confucius

Hsieh Liang-tso (c.1050-c.1120, known as master Shang-ts''ai) was one of the leading direct disciples of Ch''eng Hao and Ch''eng I, the two brothers who were the early leaders of the Confucian revival known as Neo-Confucianism in Northern Sung China. Hsieh was thus among the first to recognize and follow the insights of the Ch''eng brothers as definitive of the authentic Confucian tradition, a rec...