Journal of Asian and African Studies, May 1st, 2001
Qian Zhongshu, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. Selected and Translated by Ronald Egan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), ix, 495 pp. Cloth $45.00, ISBN 0674534115.
The five-volume Guanzhui pian (literally The Tube and Awl Collection) represents the ne plus ultra achievement of Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), widely acclaimed as China's most erudite literary scholar of the twentieth century. The original work, written in dense classical prose, was structured as reading notes of ten early Chinese classics which include canonical annotated versions of The Book of Changes, ...
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