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Lives of Confucius, co-authored by Thomas A. Wilson, provides a comprehensive and accessible approach to the lives of Confucius, paying close attention to the importance of ritual.
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On Sacrifice & Ritual
Chow, Kai-wing. 1994. The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Ebrey, Patricia B. 1991. Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Wilson, Thomas A. "Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: The Family and State Cults of the Sage of Culture in Imperial China," in Thomas A. Wilson, ed., On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius (Institute for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2002), 43-94
Wilson, Thomas A. "Sacrifice and the Imperial Cult of Confucius," History of Religions 41 (Feb. 2002) 3: 251-87
Thomas A. Wilson, "The Cultic Confucius in the Imperial Temple and Ancestral Shrine," Lives of Confucius (Doubleday, 2010), 165-191.
On Music & Liturgy
Lam, Joseph S.C. "Musical Confucianism: The Case of ‘Jikong yuewu’," in Thomas A. Wilson, ed., On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Policits, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius (Institute for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2002), 134-172.
Shaughnessy, Edward. "From Liturgy to Literature," Before Confucius: Studies in the Creation of the Chinese Classics (SUNY, 1997), 165-95.
On Kongzi, Confucianism & the Canon
Analects. 1979. Trans. D. C. Lau. Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark. "Confucian and the Analects in the Han," Confucius and the Analects: New Essays (Oxford, 2000), 134-62.
Ebrey, Patricia. "Portraiture and Ancestor Rituals"
Gardener, Daniel K. The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2007).
Yao, Xinzhong. An Introduction to Confucianism (Cambridge University Press, 2000).