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Page 231
... poems and prose selections have continued to be hung alongside paintings in the homes of the common people as well as the elite , converting these literary gems into something to be enjoyed in everyday living . ( 3 ) On the negative ...
... poems and prose selections have continued to be hung alongside paintings in the homes of the common people as well as the elite , converting these literary gems into something to be enjoyed in everyday living . ( 3 ) On the negative ...
Page 232
... poems . Classical , or literary , prose ( ku - wen , or wen - yen ) aims at the standards and styles set by ancient writers and their distinguished followers of subsequent ages , with the Confucian Classics and the early philoso- phers ...
... poems . Classical , or literary , prose ( ku - wen , or wen - yen ) aims at the standards and styles set by ancient writers and their distinguished followers of subsequent ages , with the Confucian Classics and the early philoso- phers ...
Page 233
... poems celebrating heroic deeds of the royal ancestors , but these are rearranged in cycles and only faintly approximate the national epics of other peoples . One cycle , for example , records the major stages in the rise of the Chou ...
... poems celebrating heroic deeds of the royal ancestors , but these are rearranged in cycles and only faintly approximate the national epics of other peoples . One cycle , for example , records the major stages in the rise of the Chou ...
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CHINA | 36 |
CHINESE LITERATURE | 231 |
CHORDATES CHRISTIANITY | 251 |
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