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Spence on Confucius
The legendary China scholar Jonathan Spence of Yale is giving the BBC's annual Reith lectures this year. You can listen or download the first talk, on Confucius, here. Spence is incapable of saying or writing anything dull on China and this first lecture of four is characteristically fascinating.
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