Ming and Qing prose: Appreciating the extraordinary

Author: Xia Xianchun Gao Yuti
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Publishing Date: 2001-04-01
Features: This small book introduces over fifty works, more than one hundred and thirty pieces, which are but a branch of the qionglin and a stone of the qishan. Though one cannot traverse all the green mountains or roam beneath the cliffs and half-valleys, one can roughly imagine the grandeur and winding contours of the entire mountain. The focus is on the late Ming and early Qing periods. This was an era of brilliant stars and successive masters, a time when intellectual scholarship and literary art shone brilliantly. Especially in the late Ming, new currents surged, with extraordinary people and extraordinary writings as numerous as forests and clouds, dazzling the eyes and captivating the spirit. Mr. Zheng Zhenduo once moved to point out that it was an "age of great prose." Additionally, the introduction of writers and works with distinctive characteristics and creativity from the early Ming to the modern era, covering about five hundred years, also occupies a significant portion.