
Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays
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Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773-819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.
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Ian Johnston is an independent scholar and translator. He has published translations of early Chinese philosophical works and Chinese poetry, as well as translations of classical Greek medical texts.
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List of Bibliographical Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Essays from the Record of Daily Knowledge (Rizhi Lu-RZL)
1. RZL 1-7: The Classics
2. RZL 8-12: Administration and Economics
3. RZL 13-15: Customs and Mores
4. RZL 16-17: The Examination System
5. RZL 18-21: Literature and Philosophy
6. RZL 22-32: Miscellaneous
Part II. Essays, Letters, and Prefaces from Collected Poems and Essays (Tinglin Shiwenji-SWJ)
1. SWJ 1: Statecraft Essays
2. SWJ 2: Prefaces
3. SWJ 3: Letters 1
4. SWJ 4: Letters 2
5. SWJ 5: Records, Inscriptions, and Other Writings
6. SWJ 6: Miscellaneous
Part III. Poems from Collected Poems and Essays (Tinglin Shiwenji-SWJ)
Appendix 1. Biographical Summary
Appendix 2. Works by Gu Yanwu
Appendix 3. Zhang Binglin's Preface to Huang Kan's Rizhi Lu Jiaoji
Appendix 4. On the Feudal System (Fengjian Lun)-Liu Zongyuan
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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