It is natural to picture Mencius sitting with early humanists from Renaissance Italy, discussing virtue politics. It is just as natural to picture him concurring with modern thinkers on free trade and low tax policies. Living twenty-three centuries ago, the man toured different states for 40 years, offering advice to rulers; and when rejected by them all, he retired as a hermit, writing books with his disciples.
Guillaume Apollinaire poet and critic
Peter Behrman de Sinéty translator
Thomas Carlyle essayist and historian
Eileen Chang novelist
Chi Li novelist
Chiang Ching dancer and essayist
Tan-Ying Chou sinologist and translator
Fan Zhongyan poet and politician of the Song Dynasty
Annelise Finegan translator
Romain Graziani sinologist and translator
Han Fei thinker of the Legalist School during the Warring States
Han Yu poet, essayist and politician of the Tang Dynasty
Mingyuan Hu historian, writer and translator
Hu Shih philosopher, writer and politician
David Hume historian and philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment
Jean Izoulet philosopher
Jiang Yun novelist
Jean Levi sinologist and translator of Chinese classics
Liyine Levi-Wong translator
Liu Yiqing writer, statesman and patron during the Six Dynasties
Mencius philosopher during the Warring States, ‘Second Sage’ after Confucius
Gabriel Monod historian
Mu Xin painter and poet
Ouyang Xiu poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty
Qu Yuan poet and statesman during the Warring States
Isabelle Rabut sinologist and translator
Maël Renouard novelist, essayist and translator
Sophie Sa translator
George Sand novelist and critic
Shao Baoqing sinologist and translator
Shi Zhecun novelist, essayist and translator
Song Gang translator
Cory Stockwell literary scholar, writer and translator
Su Shi poet, calligrapher and politician of the Song Dynasty
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard journalist and translator
Hippolyte Taine philosopher, historian and critic
Wei Zheng historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty
Xunzi philosopher and teacher during the Warring States
Zhang Yanyuan painter, art historian and politician of the Tang Dynasty
Stefan Zweig novelist, biographer and translator
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