Sayings of the World ition and Annotation

Author: Xu Zhenqin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: It was an era of brilliant stars, an age filled with heroes and renowned scholars. In that time, the life consciousness of the Chinese people began to awaken, and individuality was expressed as never before. The words and actions of the figures from that era exuded vitality. Everything about them became an aspiration for later scholars. This was the era of Shi Shuo Xinyu. A renaissance following the pre-Qin period. Shi Shuo Xinyu is a novel primarily recording anecdotes and tales of the aristocratic class during the late Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty, written by Liu Yiqing of Linchuan during the Southern Dynasties of the Southern Song Dynasty. The elegance of Chinese nobility is through this book. Professor Xu Zhenqin is a renowned scholar of pre-Tang literature, and his annotated edition, published by Zhonghua Book Company, has been the best reading edition of Shi Shuo Xinyu since its release.