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anonymous
How a teacher's students kept his voice alive for 2,500 years
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The Analects (in Chinese, Lunyu) is not the work of a single named writer. It is a collection of sayings and short conversations attributed to Confucius (551 to 479 BCE), a teacher and thinker from the state of Lu in ancient China. He himself wrote none of it down. Instead his students, and later their students, remembered what he said and gathered it over many decades after his death. That is why the author here is simply "anonymous."
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- Analects 5th century BC
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