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...Hellmut Wilhelm Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Reflections on Things at Hand, The Neo-Confucian Anthology . By Wing-tsit Chan . New York : Columbia University Press , 1967 . xli, 441 pp. Index, Glossary, Bibliography, Translation of Certain Chinese...

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