Tang Cai Zi Zhuan
The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (simplified Chinese: 唐才子传; traditional Chinese: 唐才子傳; pinyin: Táng Cái Zǐ Zhuán; Wade–Giles: Tang3 Tsai1 Tzu3 Chuan1) is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.
Compiler and date
It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure Xin Wenfang.[1]
Contents
It is in ten volumes,[1] and contains biographies of 278 poets.[1]
Textual tradition
The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty.[1] It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains,[1] and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Satō 1994.
Works cited
- Satō, Tamotsu (1994). "Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (Tō sai shi den in Japanese)". Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
External links
- Full text at the Chinese Text Project
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