Vanilla Continued School Books (Set of 2)

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Features: Yu Chang, styled Li Zun, alias Xiangcao, was a native of Nanhui, Jiangsu in the Qing Dynasty. He was born in the fourth year of the Xianfeng era (1854) and died in the second year of the Xuantong era (1910). He passed the Bacelet Examination in the Dingyou year of the Guangxu era (1897) but did not enter official service. He studied under Zhang Wenhu and Zhong Wenzheng. Wang Xianshan was his mentor when Yu Chang was promoted to a stipend student. He had exchanges with Yu Yue and others. He wrote over twenty works, including Sixty Volumes of Xiangcao Annotations, Twenty-two Volumes of Continued Xiangcao Annotations, Thirty-three Volumes of Annotations to the Zhan Guo Ce (with an additional One Volume of Preface and Catalogue and One Volume of Chronological Table), Three Volumes of Continued Anomalies in the Zhou Yi, Six Volumes of Anomalies in the Shang Shu, and Two Volumes of Anomalies in the Yi Li. Most of Yu Chang's works, including the Xiangcao Annotations, were published. Zhang Yicheng, Yu Chang's daughter-in-law, preserved Yu Chang's manuscripts during the War of Resistance against Japan and collated copies. In 1954, Zhang Yicheng and others donated all of Yu Chang's manuscripts and collated copies to the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The Xiangcao Annotations focus on annotating the classics, while the Continued Xiangcao Annotations focus on annotating the works of the "Six Arts" and historical records, including the Laozi to the Shui Jing Zhu and the Huainanzi (fifteen schools). Among them, the Lieshu primarily collects remarks on Yang Zhu from the Liezi, with the last three entries compiled from the Zhuangzi, Shu Yuan, and Huainanzi. The entire piece lacks authorial annotations, differing in style from the other entries.