Wen xuan, or, Selections of refined literature. Volume two, Rhapsodies on sacrifices, hunting, travel, sightseeing, palaces and halls, rivers and seas /

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531), is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literary genres. It was one of the primary sources of literary knowledge for educated Chinese in the premodern period, and it is still the essential handbook for specialists in pre-Tang literature. Originally...

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Main Author: Tong, Xiao (Author)
Other Authors: Knechtges, David R. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1987
Series:Princeton library of Asian translations.
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