Wenzhou Literature Series. Liu Jingchen Collection

Author: Liu Jingchen
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Publishing Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The upper volume contains 71 articles arranged by genre, including monographs, prefaces and postfaces, biographical sketches, official documents, letters, and notices, each section ordered chronologically by writing date. The lower volume features poems and couplets, organized by year of composition, with those of unknown dates placed at the end. Thus, the "Zhenghui Paintings Quatrain" is divided into four parts and compiled in the corresponding years. Seventeen articles in the upper volume are joint works, with four of them (such as mourning notices and telegrams) led by the author, while the remaining thirteen are included as well. The reason is the same as in the second volume of the "Huang Qun Collection" of this series, and further elaboration is unnecessary here. Jointly signed works are concentrated in official documents and notices, especially the latter, which are not merely advertisements but also reveal certain styles of the time. Considering the author's self-edited "Zhenghui Poetic Manuscript" includes 17 chapters of commissioned works, all are faithfully reproduced in the lower volume. Similarly, the upper volume also includes works like the "Reconstruction of Mi Yuan's Tomb" written by others. After extensive research, some articles lack original sources. For instance, the "Zhewan Daily" issue of September 29, 1947, dedicated to the centennial of Sun Gong's birth, which published speeches, is incomplete in both Wenzhou and Hangzhou archives., the compiler used a copy from Dong Putuo's Qianli. Many other works remain undiscovered and must await future discovery. To address this, an "Index of Lost Works" is included as Appendix I to compensate and facilitate further research by relevant parties.