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Testing the literary : prose and the aesthetic in early modern China /

"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 mode of expression in which educated individuals w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Des Forges, Alexander Townsend, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 125.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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