Elegant Chinese -- Influenced My Fifty-Six Beautiful Essays (Classic Prose Reader)

Author: Zhang Peizhen
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This is a very personal selection, reflecting my reading experience, my childhood, youth, and adulthood, my preferences, and even the various accidents in my reading: preconceptions, the right mood while reading, the special context of reading, and so on. I did not intend to compile a selection of classical prose for the general public; that should be a different approach, taking into account historical consensus and the needs of readers, and not being too subjective. What I have done this time is to introduce to the public what kind of prose a certain Wang has read, more accurately, what he has encountered and loved.
Chinese, especially its characters, is a language and script that emphasizes aesthetic appreciation, association, and the spirit and divinity of words. In these times, where are the truly good articles? Can the public still recognize good articles? Especially when there are no universally recognized good articles? Under these circumstances, reflecting on the masterpieces and exquisite sentences of our country's outstanding ancient scholars, arranging them with care, refining words and meaning, thinking outside the box, working meticulously, musing over words, and playing with them will make us smile with understanding.