Wen Jin Wen Ju Yao

Author: Gao Buying (selected and annotated) / Chen Xin (edited and proofread)
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Since the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, Professor Gao Buying has made outstanding achievements in the selection and annotation of classical Chinese literature. He has compiled and annotated numerous works, among which the books published with punctuation and collation in the 1950s and 1960s include A Selection of Tang and Song Poetry and A Selection of Tang and Song Prose, both of which received praise from academia. Gao Buying (1873–1940), styled Lanxian, was a native of Ba County, Hebei Province, and a student of Wu Ruyun (Zhipu), the later master of the Tongcheng School of classical Chinese prose. In the 1920s of this century, he successively taught at Beijing Normal University and Women's Normal University. Due to his profound foundation in the principles, textual research, and stylistics of classical Chinese literature, coupled with years of teaching experience, his selected texts are prominent in focus and serve as exemplary models; his annotations are extensive, meticulous, and rigorous, often revealing original insights, truly earning him the title of a master selector of classical Chinese literature.