Mr. Yang Yuan's Complete Works

Author: (Qing) Zhang Lixiang
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Publishing Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Yang Yuan, known as Zhang Lixiang, was one of the influential scholars during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was a renowned Confucian scholar of the early Qing period, styled Kaofu, and was also known as Nianzhi. Scholars referred to him as Yang Yuan due to the village where he resided. He was from Tongxiang, Zhejiang, born in the 39th year of the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty and died in the 13th year of the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty, at the age of 64. The author lived during the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties. In his early years, he was a scholar preparing for imperial examinations and faced numerous setbacks in his academic pursuits. Later, he abandoned the path of pursuing officialdom and strictly adhered to the moral standards of the Ming loyalists. He devoted himself to teaching and writing, spending his later years in his hometown. This book is a collection of essays by a Qing Dynasty scholar, Zhang Lixiang, a renowned Confucian scholar of the early Qing period. It is an anthology of the author's life's works, including poems, prose, letters, prefaces, memorials, inscriptions, short essays, questions, and notes on reading. The content covers a wide range of subjects, including classics, history, philosophy, and literature, or compiles important discussions on Confucian philosophy by earlier scholars. This book has a certain readability for historical researchers.