Wenxin Diao Long Zaji Notes

Author: Huang Kan
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Huang Kan (1886-1935), styled Ji Gang, styled as Liang Shou Jushi, was born into a scholarly family and read extensively in classical texts from a young age. After being influenced by revolutionary ideas in his youth, he joined the Tongmenghui and actively participated in the New Culture Movement. In 1914, Huang Kan was appointed as a professor at Peking University, where he taught Rizhang Xue (Art of Rhetoric) and the History of Chinese Literature. Later, he taught at Wuchang Higher Normal School and Beijing Normal University. Huang Kan had a strong personality, enjoyed debates, drank frequently, and slept little, which ultimately led to his early death at a young age. In his limited life, he dedicated himself to scholarship and was widely recognized as a famous scholar in modern China who bridged the gap between ancient and modern academia. At the age of twenty-eight, when Ji Gang taught The Art of Rhetoric following Zhang Taiyan, he was at the peak of his youth. Later, he compiled his lecture notes into the book Notes on The Art of Rhetoric. This book is the lecture notes of Huang Kan at Peking University on Rizhang Xue and the History of Chinese Literature, offering a meticulous and in-depth analysis of The Art of Rhetoric, one of the most important literary theory works in ancient China. It holds significant importance in the study of the history of Chinese literature. Most researchers believe that the establishment of the modern discipline of the history of Chinese literary criticism was marked by Huang Kan's teaching of The Art of Rhetoric at Peking University and his eventual writing of Notes on The Art of Rhetoric.