Japanese Collection of Rare Yuan and Ming Dynasty Literary Collections: Research and Introduction

Author: Huang Rensheng
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is for researchers of Yuan and Ming history and literature. It records over 340 collections of works by more than 200 authors from mainland China that are now lost but preserved in Japan. The main content includes: first, describing the version characteristics, era, book title formats, publication records, compilers, and engravers' names of each collection; second, listing the current repositories, seals and annotations of collectors, and related issues; third, outlining the basic content such as prefaces, postfaces, tables of contents, main body, and appendices; fourth, investigating many issues related to version and editions. For the convenience of readers, an index of author names and an index of recorded book titles are appended at the end.