Pocket. Modern Prose Appreciation Dictionary

Author: Sun Guangxuan
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This comprehensive reference book, integrating anthology, commentary, and lookup functions, has become an essential tool for students and literary enthusiasts due to its collection of the essence of Chinese literature, as well as its accessible and richly informative content. To meet the needs of readers with varying cultural backgrounds, a compact series of (pocket literary appreciation dictionaries) has been compiled based on the original dictionary, selecting outstanding works, retaining some appendices, and rewriting them. This book includes 134 works by 100 modern prose writers. They are generally arranged in chronological order. The principle is one poem with one commentary article, but some works are discussed together. The book uses simplified characters, with traditional characters or variant characters used when ambiguity arises. Difficult terms or sentences in poems are generally explained in the commentary articles, with occasional annotations at the end of the text. Historical dates related to ancient history are generally written in the old calendar system, with the corresponding Gregorian calendar dates included in parentheses. The "year" is usually omitted in the parenthetical Gregorian calendar dates.