Complete Works of Fan Wenlan

Author: Fan Wenlan
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: ★16K hardcover, Hebei Education Press, first edition, first printing in November 2002 ★Fan Wenlan (1893-1969), historian, educator, and social activist, served as the Vice President of the Chinese History Society and Director of the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences after the liberation. He studied under renowned scholars of Chinese classics such as Huang Kan, Chen Han Zhang, and Liu Shi Pei, and once served as Cai Yuan Pei's personal secretary. He made significant contributions to the development of Chinese history and classical studies. Scholar Han Ru Lin once praised his attitude as "Sit on the bench for ten years in cold solitude, write not a single empty word." ★The publishing status and basis of the works collected in each volume are explained at the beginning of each volume. ★This book is in simplified horizontal layout, but the fourth and fifth volumes, Annotations to The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, are ancient texts and annotations, following tradition to use traditional characters for easier reading. This book includes eleven published works and fifty-eight articles, divided into ten volumes. Volume I: General Introduction to the Five Classics. Volume II: Preliminary Studies on Official Histories and Brief Explanations of the Philosophers. Volume III: Lectures on The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. Volume IV: Annotations to The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Part 1). Volume V: Annotations to The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Part 2). Volume VI: Scenes from the Waterways Classic and Other Essays, The Great Man, Guerrilla Tactics, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution. Volume VII: China in Brief.