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EXEMPLARY FIGURES / FAYAN
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| By: |
Yang Xiong, Michael Nylan (Trans), Michael Nylan |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0295992891 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780295992891 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 July, 2013 |
| Series: |
Classics of Chinese Thought |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Language: |
English, Chinese, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
A core text that will be relied upon by scholars of Chinese history and philosophy |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of LiteratureExemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan, one of three major works by the Chinese court poet-philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE). Yang sought to "renew the old" by patterning these works on earlier classics, drawing inspiration from the Confucian Analects for Exemplary Figures. In this philosophical masterwork, constructed as a dialogue, Yang poses and then answers questions on philosophical, political, ethical, and literary matters. Michael Nylan's rendering of this text, which is laden with word play and is extraordinarily difficult to translate, is a joy to read-at turns wise, cautionary, and playful.Exemplary Figures is a core text that will be relied upon by scholars of Chinese history and philosophy and will be of interest to comparativists as well. |
| Illustrations: |
2 text in Chinese and English, 2 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Washington Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly |
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Returnable |