San Tzu Ching Explicated: The Classical Initiation to Classic Chinese, Couplets I to XI [Chinese]

by Friedrich A. Bischoff

San Tzu Ching Explicated: The Classical Initiation to Classic Chinese, couplets I to XI is an exegetical study of the first verses of the "Trimetrical Classic, Explicated" (San tzu ching hsun ku), a school book of the purest Neo-Confucian tradition. From its first publication in 1666 until the beginning of the twentieth century, it introduced schoolboys all over East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Annam) to classic Chinese culture. The textbook is composed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 3700133979
• ISBN13: 9783700133971
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Length: 310 Pages