Bibliography: p. 177-179; "Supplementary bibliography added by the translators": p. 180-181.

The Life of Confucius, According to the Historical Accounts of SSE-MA Che'ien -- Critical Examination of the Data of SSE-MA Ch'ien. The Historical Significance of Confucius -- The Documentos Containing the Confucian Teaching -- The Classics --The Book of Records -- The Book of Odes -- The Data on Manners -- The Book of Changes -- The Post-Confucian Writings -- The Conversations of Confucius (Lun Yü) -- School Conversations (Chia Yü) -- The Great Learning (Ta Hsüeh), Measure and Mean (Chung Yung), and the Book of Reverence (Hsia Ching) -- The Philosopher Mencius -- According to the Data of the Pupils -- According to the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Book of Changes -- Specimens of the Text -- From the Conversations of Confucius (Lun Yü) -- From the Doctrine of the Mean (Chung Yung) -- From Mencius -- From Hsün Ch'ing

Richard Wilhelm, the eminent German scholar of Chinese philosophy and culture who died in 1930, is best known for his translation of the I Ching. The present book contain his translation (rendered into English) of "The Life Shih Chi, or The Historical Records by Sse-Ma Chíen, dating from the turn of the second century B.C. This translation and Whhelm's invaluable commentaries provide a concise and readable survey of Confucius, the man and his teaching.