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A Classified Guide to the Thirteen Classes of Chinese Prose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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“All polite literature”, said the scholar Yen Chih-t′ui, “is derived from the five classical writings ”,. This statement, true in a general sense, illustrates the traditional attitude of Chinese scholars who, whenever possible, referred to the classical age as the source of anything new which they desired to introduce.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1948

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