Me paraphrase this:
"born to an aristocratic family in the state of lu in northern china, confucius(551–479b. c.e.) was both learned and ambitious. believing that he had found the keyto solving china’s problem of disorder, he spent much of his adult life seeking a polit-ical position from which he might put his ideas into action. but no such opportunitycame his way. perhaps it was just as well, for it was as a thinker and a teacher thatconfucius left a profound imprint on chinese history and culture and also on othereast asian societies, such as korea and japan. after his death, his students collected histeachings in a short book called the analects, and later scholars elaborated and com-mented endlessly on his ideas, creating a body of thought known as confucianism(see document 5.1,pp.217–19)."