Exemplary Figures / Fayan
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of LiteratureExemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan, one of three major works by the Chinese court poet-philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE). Yang sought to renew the old by patterning these works on earlier classics, drawing inspiration from the Confucian Analects for Exemplary Figures. In this philosophical masterwork, constructed as a dialogue, Yang poses and then answers questions on philosophical, political, ethical, and literary matters. Michael Nylan's rendering of this text, which is…
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Weitere Autoren: Nylan, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80468-2
- EAN: 9780295804682
- Produktnummer: 36233390
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 2 text in Chinese and English, 2 maps
Über den Autor
Michael Nylan is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Five Confucian Classics and Yang Xiong and The Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning, coauthor of Lives of Confucius, and translator of The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Xiong.
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