Chuku: Confucian Teachings in Five Characters

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Chuku: Confucian Teachings in Five Characters

Author: John J. Han
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789389074864
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2019
Price: $15

Chuku is a trilingual version of the Chinese reading primer (pronounced Choo-goo in Korean). Along with the Four-Character Proverbs (translated by Han and published by Cyberwit in 2018) and the Thousand Character Text, Chuku was a reading primer for young children at Confucian schools in premodern Korea. This book offers an English translation for Western readers, as well as a Korean translation for Korean speakers. In this book, readers will encounter lessons on benevolence, uprightness, propriety, wisdom, self-discipline, and other timeless Confucian virtues.

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John J. Han
	John J. Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is a scholar, poet, editor, and translator. He was born in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, in 1956 and came to America for graduate studies in English in 1988. He currently serves as Professor of English and Creative Writing and Chair of the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis.