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A Classified Guide to the Thirteen Classes of Chinese Prose
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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“All polite literature”, said the scholar Yen Chih-t′ui, “is derived from the five classical writings ”,
. This statement, true in a general sense, illustrates the traditional attitude of Chinese scholars who, whenever possible, referred to the classical age as the source of anything new which they desired to introduce.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1948 , pp. 770 - 788
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