Guwen Guanzhi Xin Bian - Student Extracurricular Reading Library (New Curriculum Standards)

Author: Chen Hongyi
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This "New Edition of Guwen Guanzhi" is based on the original "Guwen Guanzhi" with additions and deletions. In this selection, the main text is based on the standard version, supplemented by "Author Biographies," "Brief Notes on Words," and "Appraisals of Ideological Content and Artistic Characteristics." The compilers strive to comprehensively apply the methodology of traditional Chinese prose studies, absorbing the positive achievements of its textual analysis, phonology and rhetoric, and annotation and critique. They use these to observe the evolution and changes of classical prose styles, themes, grammar, structure, sentence patterns, and pronunciation. They also incorporate the basic theories of literary aesthetics, drawing on the research findings of contemporary scholars, and make appraisals from the perspectives of linguistic beauty, imagery, and emotional expression, in order to highlight the national style, spirit, and sentiments of ancient prose.