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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Des Forges, Alexander Townsend, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 125.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Voice : an ideology of technique
  • Representative style
  • Measures and matches
  • The examined subject
  • Anonymity and identity.