History of Chinese Classics

Author: Li Zhizhong
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is a specialized work that elaborates on the history of the emergence, initial rise, and successive flourishing of Chinese classics. It is divided into eight chapters. The first two chapters discuss the concept of classics and the era of their emergence. The third chapter narrates the relationship between academic traditions and academic evolution and the creation and development of classics. The fourth and fifth chapters describe the evolution of the media of classics across different dynasties. The sixth to eighth chapters record the collection, organization, cataloging, disasters, and dispersal of classics. With rich materials, the book takes the process of the emergence, development, and prosperity of Chinese classics as the vertical axis and the interrelationships between classics and politics, economy, culture, and academia in various historical periods as the horizontal axis, systematically and comprehensively outlining the development trajectory of Chinese classics. It is an academic work with distinctive features in both format, content selection, and writing style.