Collected Essays on Education

Author: Cheng Zhangcan
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book collects fourteen essays on the study of fu literature written by the author over the past decade, which can be roughly divided into two parts, with a focus on fu literature and its history. The first part contains eight essays, some of which meticulously analyze and comprehensively discuss the research literature on fu from various dynasties, while others adopt different perspectives to explore issues related to fu literature in inscriptions, notes, compendia, and collected works. Each essay has a distinct focus and approach but all intentionally re-examine the history of fu through literature. The second part contains six essays that discuss various aspects of the three-thousand-year evolution of fu history, primarily centered on fu writers and their creations, analyzing and tracing the historical rhythms presented in them. The last two essays, "On Fu in Quatrain Form," have a unique style and are somewhat limited in scope, supplemented by brief annotations. The first fifty quatrains focus on fu from the pre-Qin and Han periods, while the next fifty focus on the Tang and Song dynasties, potentially serving as a complement and continuation to the author's previously written "History of Fu Literature in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties," aiming to achieve a relatively complete form.