The debate surrounding the implication of two passages from the Mencius about Shun 舜,nan ancient Chinese sage king, has been going on since 2002. The first time it drew mynattention was when I obtained a copy of A Collection of Contention on Confucian Ethics:nThe Case of Mutual Concealment of Father and Son (Guo 2004), which includes thirty-onenarticles by eighteen authors. I was quite impressed by the scholarly expertise of the twonprotagonists in this debate, namely, LIU Qingping and GUO Qiyong, as well as by the widthnand depth of the issues that are involved in this debate.
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