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

Author: Zhang Bowei
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Features: Domain Studies on Chinese Manuscripts is an annual publication primarily focused on academic research, featuring scholarly articles on language, literature, history, and related fields from Chinese manuscripts outside China. The second issue mainly covers the study of Chinese manuscripts in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. It introduces new sections such as "Introduction to Rare Materials" (including a facsimile of the Remnants of the Geographic Records of the Earth from Japan with annotations) and "Documentary Collection." This issue boasts high academic quality and substantial content, such as Sun Meng's "A Study of Lost Works in the Classical, Historical, and Literary Categories" and Zhang Bowei's "A Preliminary Discussion on the Transmission of Qing Dynasty Poetic Criticism." Regarding The Record of Mount Samantapāsa by Sei Shōnagon, the issue includes two articles: Cao Jiaqi's "A Brief Discussion on the Historical Value of the Text" and Cai Yi's "Complementing the Records from Japanese Chinese Manuscripts." Additionally, Xing Yanhong's "Kūkai in the History of Japanese Chinese Poetry" focuses on poetry as the central theme of research, examining the state of poems from the Nara period to the early Heian period before Kūkai's time, clarifying Kūkai's contributions to the history of Chinese literature, and is considered an outstanding work.