Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning, a Translation of the Meng Tzu Tzu-I Shu-Cheng - Hardcoverby Mansfield Freeman (Author), Ann Ping Chin (Author), Zhen Dai (Author) The Ch'ing scholar thinker Tai Chen (1724 1777) was a passionate explorer. He loved words, and his most important philosophical treatise, the Meng Tzu tzu I shu cheng (An evidential study of the meaning of terms in the Mencius), is an exhaustive search for the meaning of the words first uttered by Mencius in the fourth century B. C. This book by Ann ping Chin and Mansfield