Script of Song and Yuan Academic Cases - Supplementary Notes

Author: Wang Zicai [Qing Dynasty]
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Publishing Date: 2002-04-01
Features: A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties is another classic work in the history of Chinese academic thought. A Supplement to A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties was written by Wang Zicai, who compiled and published A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The supplement contains approximately seven or eight hundred entries. The facsimile edition is based on the manuscript of Wang Zicai and Feng Yunhao preserved in the library of Nankai University. It consists of eight volumes and forty-two scrolls, with excellent paper and ink. After the table of contents, there are prefaces and notes that record the reasons and process behind Wang Zicai's compilation of A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the writing of A Supplement to A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Additionally, the book includes prefaces written by cultural giants Hu Shih and Shan Bu'an titled "Preface to the Forty-Two-Volume Edition of A Supplement to A Record of Learning in the Song and Yuan Dynasties." This is a must-read for those studying the academic thought of the Song and Yuan dynasties.