Shi sheng lei ??? [Sound Classes in the Poetry (Classic)]

KONG, Guangsen ???

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Two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers & stitching. Chengdu: Weinan Yan shi ben yuan??????, 1924-1925. A rare edition of this study of historical phonology of the Poetry Classic, one of the oldest texts in the Chinese canon. The poems in the Poetry Classic used rhyme as part of their meter, but by the late imperial period, many of those rhymes no longer worked in the language of the time. Trying to define which Chinese characters rhymed in the ancient poems, and which did not, was a major scholarly undertaking that occupied generations of scholars from the 17th to the 19th century, including the author of our book. Kong Guangsen (1752-86) was from Qufu in Shandong province. Not only was this Confucius s hometown, but Kong was himself a 70th-generation descendant of Confucius. Kong was a prolific and pioneering scholar in a number of fields, but his untimely death at age 36 cut short his scholarly oeuvre. Kong stood out among the many scholars who in the second half of the 18th century recentered Chinese scholarship on the Confucian classics. As the publisher Yan Shihui ??? writes in his Preface, "phonology and exegetics of the Qing period are known for their great flourishing. However, their practitioners primarily hailed from Jiangsu and Zhejiang [in the lower-Yangzi region], whereas Northern scholars were relatively few." As a Shandong man, Kong was one of the exceptions to this trend. The cartouche with the imprint says that the book was published in 1924 (jiazi), but the publisher Yan s Preface is dated 1925 (yichou). Yan writes that the book was little known in his time, partially because its inclusion in Huang Qing jingjie ???? [Explanations of the Classics of the August Qing] simply made it disappear in the great mass of works in that voluminous collection. Yan used his personal copy of the first edition of the work for the reprint, which was carried out by Xiang Xianqiao ??? of Baxian (present-day Chongqing). From the wording of Yan s Preface it appears that the new edition was a blockprint. Yan also wrote an Afterword for the book, dated 1924. Fine copy, preserved in a hantao. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10046

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Titel: Shi sheng lei ??? [Sound Classes in the ...

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