Hánliǔ Tángjí: Chen Yinkuo Collection

Author: Chen Yinque
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Professor Chen Yinque, throughout his life, dedicated himself to writing, upholding "freedom of thought and independence of spirit" as the moral compass of his academic career. With a vast body of works, he left a lasting legacy for posterity, a brand-new realm in the study of history, and his personal charisma remains an inspiration to later generations. This book collects lecture notes prepared by the professor during his teaching career, as well as other scattered historical manuscripts, marking the first time they are published. In accordance with the professor’s wishes, the entire book is printed in traditional Chinese characters in vertical layout. Names of people, places, and books are not marked with symbols, with common characters generally used, while retaining a few variant characters. Professor Chen Yinque’s classical poetry, both in quantity and artistic value, is of the highest caliber. This book includes over 150 of his poems. The "Scattered Fragments from Dunhuang" features seven copies of Dunhuang manuscripts from Paris, London, and the Pelliot Collection. These include Wei Zong’s "Ballad of a Qin Maiden," thirty "Miscellaneous Lyrics from the Cloud Ballad Collection," "Ballad of Ji Bu," three Buddhist hymns, three folk songs, three minor songs, and one volume of "Strange Tales from theSearch of the Supernatural." Professor Chen Yinque provided annotations on the "Ballad of a Qin Maiden" and the "Cloud Ballad Collection." In 1936, he published "Reading the Ballad of a Qin Maiden" in the Tsinghua Journal (Volume 11, Issue 4). In 1940, he further revised and published "Commentary on Wei Zong’s Ballad of a Qin Maiden" (a self-published edition in Kunming, titled Commentary on the Ballad of a Qin Maiden). In 1950, he wrote a supplementary correction titled "Supplementary Corrections to the Old Draft of Commentary on the Ballad of a Qin Maiden" in the Lingnan Journal (Volume 12, Issue 2). These were later included as Commentary on Wei Zong’s Ballad of a Qin Maiden. In his research on the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Professor Chen Yinque extensively collected materials from Tang Dynasty anecdotes, novels, and poetry. His works such as Draft Commentary on Yuan Bai’s Poetry, On the Rebirth of Yuan, and Biography of Liu Shi can be regarded as his three pioneering masterpieces, primarily utilizing literary and historical texts to explore and analyze history.