Tang Caozi Chuan Xiao Jian, Volume 3

Author: Fu Xuancong
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: Tang Talent Futors is based on the ten-volume edition published by Ri Mao Yuan, with collation from the five mountains edition in Japan, the Zhengbao edition, the Yi Cun Cong Shu edition, as well as the Siku Quanshu edition, the Sanjian Cao Tang edition, the Zhihai edition, and other domestic and international editions of Fu's works. The collation is meticulous and can be considered the definitive edition. The annotations focus on exploring historical sources, correcting factual errors, and supplementing important events omitted in the original text. With the lives and creations of nearly four hundred important Tang poets included in the book as its basic framework, it serves as a comprehensive database of Tang poetical records by verifying the origins, truths, and falsehoods of their life stories, literary works, and the circulation of their creations. This book is the result of years of collaborative research by over twenty Tang literature scholars in China and represents the highest achievement in the study of the Tang poetic community of the century.