not unfrequently we find in the volume passages of great eloquence and beauty. The mode in which the author has developed his views, is not, indeed, the least merit of the treatise. The work is singularly free from scientific jargon and professional terms, and is, therefore, easy of comprehension to the general reader. Some portions of it, from the novelty of the facts adduced, and the principl...

Most rhetorical readings of Confucius’s Analects have focused on his views on eloquence, reflecting an insuppressible impulse among comparative rhetoricians to match Confucian rhetoric to Greco–Roman rhetorical framework. My reading of the text argues that Confucius was more concerned about the suasory power of the multimodality of ritual symbols than narrowly verbal persuasion. To achieve the ...