Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China by Alexander Des Forges

Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph

Alexander Des Forges

nonfiction classics history literary

350 pages

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The civil service examination essay known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure was the most widely read and written literary genre in early modern China (1450-1850). As the primary mod...
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