His old man's life experience or Mr. Wang's New Interpretation of the Analects of Confucius is ok, but there are more classical Chinese.
2. Nan's The Analects of Confucius (in vernacular) is also good.
3. Further, it is the Four Books Yi Yi Jie written by Master Xu Zhi of Ou Yi in the Ming Dynasty (the crowning touch of the Analects of Confucius, the direct reference of universities)
The doctrine of the mean is straightforward) (classical Chinese, including Buddhism and psychology).
4. Professor Roger T. Ames, a foreign scholar, wrote a good book "Harmony but Difference-the Integration of Chinese and Western Philosophy" (in the vernacular).
5. Chen Lifu's "Four Books" can be referred to (according to Zhu Zhu's note) (semi-classical).