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The Book of Documents (Chinese: 書經; pinyin: Shūjīng; Wade–Giles: Shu King) or the Classic of History, [a] is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China , and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over two millennia.
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir is a 2021 memoir by Ai Weiwei. Allan H. Barr is the translator of the English version. Crown published the book in the United States, and Bodley Head published the book in the United Kingdom. [1] The title refers to poetry done by Ai's father, Ai Qing. The book also chronicles similarities between the ...
The anthropologist Francis L. K. Hsu welcomed the book in 1946, saying that Pruitt "deserves hearty congratulations from all her readers, who should include not only the social scientist, but the layman as well." He emphasizes that Mrs. Ning was steeped in traditional Chinese culture, which emphasizes fate and fatalism but her actual behavior ...
McDougall, Bonnie S. "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature" (book review). The China Quarterly, ISSN 0305-7410, 06/1996, Issue 146, pp. 654 – 656. Available from HeinOnline. Williams, Philip F. (Autumn 1995). "Reviewed Work: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature by Joseph S. M. Lau, Howard Goldblatt".
After 1991, when the World Wide Web was established and publicly accessible, some online Chinese language magazines were developed overseas, such as China News Digest and Chinese Magazine (Hua Xia Wen Zhai 华夏文摘) which provided news on China-related topics and was run by Chinese and Chinese-Americans in the United States. During the ...
The first two known history books about Chinese literature were published by Japanese authors in the Japanese language. [80] Kojō Tandō wrote the 700 page Shina bungakushi (支那文学史; "History of Chinese Literature"), published in 1897. Sasakawa Rinpū wrote the second ever such book in 1898, also called Shina bungakushi. [81]
These writings represent the earliest known interpretations of the Zhouyi, the Bronze Age divination manual underlying the Book of Changes (易經 Yì jīng). By offering philosophical and moral insights, the Ten Wings transformed the text from a practical guide for divination into a profound treatise on metaphysics, ethics, and cosmology.
[1]: 230 They are some of the earliest Chinese literature written in the form of short and medium-length stories and have provided valuable inspiration plot-wise and in other ways for fiction and drama in later eras. Many were preserved in the 10th-century anthology, Taiping Guangji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era). [2]