Abstract
Article anthologies of the Ming and Qing dynasties broke with the tradition of not excerpting writings from the Classical, Historical, and Philosophical Works. It compiled a great number of biographies that appeared in historical writings, and quite a few articles in The Commentary of Zuo, The Records of the Grand Historian, and History of the Han Dynasty. Four factors accounted for this phenomenon: the breakthrough of boundaries between the four sections; the necessity of distinguishing types or forms of literature; the elevation of narrative writings'status; the need to study eight-legged essays. Interactions among these various factors led historical biographies to be greatly and frequently excerpted in Miscellaneous Works, which accelerated the process of canonization of historical biographies.
First Page
65
Last Page
76
Recommended Citation
He, Shihai, and Lu Chen. 2020. "An Examination of Collected Historical Biographies in the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the Perspective of Article Studies." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.65-76. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/1
