Rulin waishi

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Rulin waishi
CADAL02111881 Ru Lin Wai Shi (Yi ).djvu
Author Wu Jingzi
Original title儒林外史
Country Qing China
Language Written vernacular Chinese
Genre historical fiction
Set in China, early 16th century AD
Publication date
1750
Media typePrint
895.1348
LC Class PL2732.U22 J813
ISBN 0-231-08153-7
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  • Der Weg zu den weißen Wolken: Geschichten aus dem Gelehrtenwald (The Way to the White Clouds: Stories from the Forest of Scholars), tr. Yang Enlin and Gerhard Schmitt; Weimar, Germany : G. Kiepenheuer, 1962; rpr. with an afterword by Irma Peters, Leipzig 1989.
  • (Russian) уноффициал historie оф те конфукинцы (unoffitial historie of te konfukintsy) Translation, comments by D. Voskresensky. Moscow, 1959, reprints 1999, 2008.
  • (Japanese) 儒林外史 (Jurin gaishi). tr. 稲田 (Takashi Inada). Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1977
  • Notes

    1. Hsia (1968).
    2. Shang Wei, "Baihua, Guanhua, Fangyan and the May Fourth Reading of Rulin waishi," Sino-Platonic Papers, I 17 (May, 2002).
    3. Frederick W. Mote. Imperial China, 900-1800. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999 ISBN 0674445155), p. 930.
    4. Slupski, Zbigniew (June 1989). "Three Levels of Composition of the Rulin Waishi". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Harvard-Yenching Institute. 49 (1): 5–53. doi:10.2307/2719297. JSTOR   2719297.
    5. Shang, Wei (December 1998). "Ritual, Ritual Manuals, and the Crisis of the Confucian World: An Interpretation of Rulin waishi". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Harvard-Yenching Institute. 58 (2): 373–377. doi:10.2307/2652665. JSTOR   2652665.
    6. Roddy (1998), pp. 109–129.
    7. See "Appendix: Texts and Authorship of Rulin Waishi," in Shang (2020), pp. 308-314.
    8. 1 2 李,漢秋 (2010). 儒林外史:彚校彚評 (in Chinese). 上海: 上海古籍出版社. pp. 1–13. ISBN   978-7-5325-5557-4.

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    Rulin waishi
    Chinese 儒林外史
    Literal meaningConfucian scholars' unofficial history

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