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Confucius
(c. 551-479 B.C.)
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This month we look at chiasmus in the life and works of the Chinese sage known as Confucius.
Chinese names—and in fact the entire language—have always been a challenge for Westerners. As
people in the West have moved away from Latinized spellings and adopted more phonetic ways of presenting
Chinese names, we've had to change the way we pronounce (and spell) many famous names. For example,
Mao Tse Tung has become Mao Zedong and Peking is now called Beijing. But the name Confucius is so
deeply embedded in Western consciousness that we will forever call him by that name, even though he is
known in the East as Kung Fu-Tse. Many Asians refer to him as "Master Kung."
 Part 1
Part 2
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