With the publication of Madman of Chu: A Myth of Loyalty and Dissent in 1980, Laurence
Schneider established the view that the controversy over Qu Yuan between various erudites …

Sources show Qu Yuan (? 340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous
for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday …

In the Han dynasty there were numerous imitations of Qu Yuan's 屈原“Li sao” 離騷, many of
which did not emphasize his political stance, biography, or suicide, but rather praised him as …

The fourteenth century Yuan dynasty brought China's last indigenous literary genre, the ch'u
to its florescence. Socio-economic and political challenges posed by the foreign occupation …

In 1 bc, close to the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty, the Mao^ tradition of the ancient
Odes (Shi fjvf) received a chair at the imperial academy, belatedly following the earlier …

Among the texts discovered in December, 1973, at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, was by
far the earliest manuscript text (copied about 175 BC) of the Zhouyi or Zhou Changes …

This dissertation starts with a study of the Jiandeng xinhua (New Tales Told beside the
Trimmed Lamp), a collection of tales of the extraordinary written in classical Chinese by the …

An appropriate topic to commemorate Professor James TC Liu is Chu-ko Liang 諸葛亮 (181-
234), a figure he particularly encouraged me to research. A major figure during the Three …

To this day it is a commonly held view that the exegetical tradition of the" Book of
Odes"(Shging l: 4) as established by the Mao M and Zheng 9 exegesis in the Han period …

For Chinese intellectuals, traditional and modem, Qu Yuan (338-278 BC) has been one of
the most enduring symbols of moral rectitude and creative genius in the face of political …