Collection of Essays on Ancient Literature

Author: Li Hao, Editor-in-Chief; School of Literature, Northwest University, Compiler
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Publishing Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This collection includes: A Study on the Historical Records and Literary Sources of Zhou Yuan Gong's Sacred Temple and Run De Spring; Misunderstood Praise and Perfection's Ruin—An Analysis of Two Editions of "The Analects" in "China Reading News"; The Obsessive Reporting of Specialized Works; The Ups and Downs of Heaven's Mandate—Part Two of a Reading of Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions"; On the Aesthetic Value of Han Dynasty's Grand Prose; A Discussion on the Authenticity of Li Ling and Several of His Five-Character Poems; On the Imagery of Sentiment in Poetry of the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties; On the Feminized Aesthetic Features of "New Poems of the Jade Terrace"; A Discussion on the Relationship Between "Speaking Frankly and Offering Unrestrained Advice" and the Prosperity of Tang Poetry; A Comparison of the Literary Differences Between Wang Bo and Chen Zi'ang; A Study on Zhang Jiuling's "Disagreement with the Minister of the Time" and "Folding His Robe and Returning Home"; Tracing the "Mood of the Great Tang" and Li Bai's Poetry; "Snowflakes as Big as Mats Flie from the Yan Mountains, Falling on the Xuanyuan Terrace"—Li Bai's Journey to Youzhou; Meeting Du Fu Before the Changle Slope—A Discussion on Li and Du's Reunion in Chang'an in the 12th Year of the Tianbao Era; On Du Fu's Illness and Absence from the Court; A Brief Introduction to Jiao Ran's "Poetic Forms"; Starting from "A High Spirit Without Anger"; On Some Lost Writings of Han Yu's Collection; On the Individual Characteristics of Liu Zongyuan's Landscape Poetry; The Li He Poetry School and Its Aftermath; The Division of the Ni and Li Faction as Seen from Scholarly Clans and County Names; Eighteen Studies on Overlapping Entries in "Complete Tang Writings," "Collected Tang Writings," and "Supplementary Tang Writings"; A Brief Study on Tang People's Use of Overlapping Stones; Su Men, Su Studies, and the Su Style—Also Discussing the Party Struggles and Literature of the Northern Song Dynasty; On Huang Tingjian's Poetic Art; New Evidence of the Life of Zheng Yuan; A New Exploration of Li Qingzhao's "On Ci"; On Zhu Xi's Poetic Concepts and His Poetic Creation; Correcting Errors in "Supplement to the Collection of Song Poetry"; The Evolution of "The Face of a Person and Peach Blossoms"; Preface to the Annotation of "Pian Dong Yuefu"; A Study on Two Late Events of Ling Mengchu; Ling Mengchu's Conversion to Buddhism and the Buddhist Concept of Equality in "The Hard-Hearted Case of the Great Scholars Arguing Over Trivial Matters"; Three Ancient Sayings—Also Discussing Traditional Chinese Culture; From the Sublime to the Ordinary—The Common Aesthetic Features of Chinese and Western Tragedies; Deconstructing and Integrating the Discourse of Rationality in the Spirit of Chinese Literary Theory; What Did the Han Dynasty Contribute to the Idea of "Literature as the Art of Language"? A Study on the Lexical Explanations of Historical Records and Biographies from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. This collection includes nearly 40 ancient literary commentaries, such as "A Study on the Historical Records and Literary Sources of Zhou Yuan Gong's Sacred Temple and Run De Spring," "On the Aesthetic Value of Han Dynasty's Grand Prose," and "On Zhu Xi's Poetic Concepts and His Poetic Creation."