Mr. Yang Yuan Collection (Complete 3 Volumes)

Author: (Qing) Zhang Lixiang
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Publishing Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Yang Yuan, also known as Zhang Lixiang, was one of the influential scholars during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was a renowned Confucian scholar in the early Qing period, styled Kaofu, and known by the sobriquet Nianzhi. Scholars referred to him as Yang Yuan due to the village where he resided. He was from Tongxiang, Zhejiang, born in the 39th year of the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty and died in the 13th year of the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty, aged 64. The author lived during the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties. In his early years, he was a scholar preparing for imperial examinations and faced numerous setbacks in the competition. After the fall of the Ming, he gave up on pursuing officialdom and strictly adhered to the code of conduct of Ming loyalists. He devoted himself to teaching and writing, spending his later years in his hometown. This book is a collection of essays by a Qing scholar, Zhang Lixiang, a renowned Confucian scholar in the early Qing period. It is an anthology of the author's life's works, including odes, poems, letters, prefaces, memorials, inscriptions, short essays, questions, and reading notes. The content covers a wide range of subjects, including classics, history, philosophy, and literature, or compiles important discussions on Confucianism by previous scholars. This book has some readability for historical researchers.