Zhonghua Book Company (the best ancient books publishing house in China) specially organized an editorial team, and made a lot of revisions from chapter style design, wording and sentence making to the verification of each citation.
Of course, the result is that everyone is happy. The book has sold millions of copies and the copyright has been sold to more than 20 countries and regions.
The popularity of The Analects of Confucius has greatly improved the management of Zhonghua Book Company (academic publishing houses are always not plentiful), and made Zhonghua Book Company more confident to do some ancient books and monographs that are doomed to be unpopular. I think this is also a good thing for history lovers. If I don't like Yu Dan, I won't go to see it.
The above is nothing inside, and I don't think there is anything to hide. When the president of a publishing house (a very excellent publisher) told us about editing practical articles, the editing scheme part basically extracted the editing scheme of The Analects of Confucius. Obviously, he thinks this is an excellent publishing behavior. It is common for book editors to overhaul manuscripts (of course, it is rare to organize editorial teams). Behind many famous books, there are editors' painstaking efforts.
The interpretation of The Analects of Confucius has been extended to countless people for two thousand years. However, the interpretation of ancient Chinese characters is not sensational chicken soup, but an objective standard of right and wrong. Zhonghua Book Company received this manuscript and tried to repair it to meet the publishing requirements and earn more market profits, which is in line with the way of editing. The same is true of The Analects of Confucius. It is the editor's dereliction of duty that a large number of factual errors in the Analects of Confucius have not been corrected.
The popularity of The Analects of Confucius has greatly improved the management of Zhonghua Book Company (academic publishing houses are always not plentiful), and made Zhonghua Book Company more confident to do some ancient books and monographs that are doomed to be unpopular. I think this is also a good thing for history lovers. If I don't like Yu Dan, I won't go to see it.