Confucius Meets Shakespeare

By Amy Lee and Joseph Tsang

Confucius Meets Shakespeare is a book that matched the greatest wit of the western world with that of the east-each in its own tongue, preserving in full its own force; a book that puts side by side a poet from one world next to a poet from another, speaking the same thoughts and using their own words; to see Confucius juxtaposed against Shakespeare only to find their ideas overlapping rather than clashing; to find that great minds do proverbially think alike. This book is good for three reasons. First, this book provides practical help for all who feel caught in between the Chinese-English cultural vortex: immigrant parents who struggle to communicate cultural values with their children, translators who are faced with cultural impasses, students on a deadline scrounging for a pithy quote, and any speaker looking for rhetorical inspiration in an international setting. The second reason is that it will help bridge, what may appear at first to be an impassable chasm, the cultural misunderstanding between the East and the West. Confucius Meets Shakespeare will allow one culture to understand another through the thinkers of one's own and to feel the sorrow of another through the poets of one's own. I am convinced that the deeper things are universal. Language may be conventional, but truth is not; people may shout with different voices, but the pain or pleasure behind it has always been the same-for love, for glory, for pain, and for loss. Confucius Meets Shakespeare is a book that matched the greatest wit of the western world with that of the east-each in its own tongue, preserving in full its own force; a book that puts side by side a poet from one world next to a poet from another, speaking the same thoughts and using their own words; to see Confucius juxtaposed against Shakespeare only to find their ideas overlapping rather than clashing; to find that great minds do proverbially think alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451508883
• ISBN13: 9781451508888
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 8.0"