E. Bruce Brooks

E. Bruce Brooks (born 1936) is an American Sinologist, Research Professor of Chinese, Director, Warring States Project, Adjunct Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Graduate Faculty, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is known for his revisionist textual studies and translations of pre-Qin philosophical texts, many in collaboration with his wife, A. Taeko Brooks.

The Original Analects (1991) a critical translation of the Analects, the collection of sayings attributed to Confucius, argued that the received text was not written by Confucius himself or by any one later person, but was an "accretion" of oral traditions and written fragments put together by various hands and edited as late as the Han dynasty. One reviewer wrote that the book changed the way that scholars approached these early texts, and was "extraordinary book in many ways," clearly "required reading for anyone concerned with early Confucian thought."