Journal of Research on Chinese Texts Outside China (Issue 2)

Author: Zhang Bowei (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Domain Foreign Han Classics Research Collection is an annual publication focused on academic research, featuring scholarly articles on language, literature, history, and other fields from domain foreign Han classics. The second issue primarily covers Korean–South Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese Han classics research areas. It introduces new sections such as "Introduction to Rare Materials" (facsimile of the surviving fragments of Kuode Zhi from Japan with postscript) and "Documentary Collection." This issue boasts high academic quality and greater depth, such as Sun Meng's article "A Study of Lost Works in the Jing, Shi, Ji Categories" and Zhang Bowei's "Sketch of the Eastern Transmission of Qing Dynasty Poetic Criticism." Regarding Senshin's Records of Mount Paektu from the Five Sacred Mountains, the issue includes two articles: Cao Jiaqi's "On the Historical Value of Records of Mount Paektu from the Five Sacred Mountains" and Cai Yi's "Complementing the Records from Japanese Han Classics." Additionally, Xing Yanhong's article "Kukai in the History of Japanese Han Poetry" focuses on poetry as the research core, examining the state of Han poetry from the Nara period to the early Heian period before Kukai's era, clarifying Kukai's contributions to the history of Han literature, and is considered an outstanding work.