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汪受宽

Notable works
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five HistoriesThe Classic of Filial PietyThe Classic of Filial Piety: Translation and Notes

20 written works

About the author

Wang Shoukuan is an author who focuses on Chinese traditional culture and on making history accessible to general readers; public information about him is limited, and details such as his dates of birth and death and nationality are not confirmed. Judging from the nineteen works held in the database, his writing falls mainly into two categories, Eastern philosophy and history readings. On the one hand, he has compiled and annotated the Classic of Filial Piety; on the other, he has contributed to the Concise Readers of the Twenty-Five Histories series, covering dynastic volumes such as the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the Book of the Later Han, the History of the Qing, the History of the Late Qing, and the Histories of the Northern and Southern Song. He has also produced documentary compilations such as Ju An Lu: with One Other Work. Overall, his writing emphasizes making classical texts and historical sources approachable, in clear and readable language suited to ordinary readers who wish to encounter traditional classics and the official histories with little burden.

Written (20)

Records from the Saddle: With Another Work cover
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Records from the Saddle: With Another Work 杨应琚 / 汪受宽 Qinghai People's Publishing House · 2024 This book is a collated and annotated edition of two ancient works, Jü'an lu and Shifa beikao. Jü'an lu is a travel diary by Yang Yingju, then serving…
The Classic of Filial Piety cover
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The Classic of Filial Piety 汪受宽 National Library of China Publishing House · 2022 The Classic of Filial Piety is a foundational text of Confucian filial piety and one of the Thirteen Classics. It is generally attributed to Confucian…
The Classic of Filial Piety: Translation and Notes cover
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The Classic of Filial Piety: Translation and Notes 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Translated and Annotated: The Classic of Filial Piety, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean is one volume in the Chinese Classics Translat…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Records of the Three Kingdoms cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Records of the Three Kingdoms 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Three Kingdoms era was an age of constant warfare and also an age of heroes. No other period in history has given us so many figures whom people k…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Han cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Han 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 Why is China's majority ethnic group called the Han? The name traces back to the Western Han dynasty. This history begins with Liu Bang's final victor…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Tang cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Tang 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Tang dynasty was one of the most powerful and glorious periods in the history of China's feudal dynasties. Feudal institutions reached a high leve…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Northern Song; History of the Southern Song cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Northern Song; History of the Southern Song 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Song dynasty was an important era in Chinese history. Though it lacked the military glory and vast territory of the Han and Tang, its economic and…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Ming cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Ming 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Ming dynasty spanned 16 emperors and more than 270 years. It was an eventful dynasty with a long history and a multitude of figures. Drawing on a …
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Qing cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Qing 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Qing dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. Centralized power was further strengthened, the territory of coexisting ethnic groups…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Late Qing cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Late Qing 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The last sixty years of the Qing dynasty were an extremely brief yet unusually prominent span in China's history of several thousand years. In time, t…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of the Later Han cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of the Later Han 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 This book is a condensed edition of the Book of the Later Han that preserves the essence of the original history. The chronicle section outlines the g…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of the Western Jin; Book of the Eastern Jin cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of the Western Jin; Book of the Eastern Jin 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 In 265 AD, Sima Yan (Emperor Wu of Jin) usurped the Wei throne and proclaimed the Jin dynasty with its capital at Luoyang, known to history as the Wes…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Song; Book of Southern Qi; Book of Liang; Book of Chen cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Song; Book of Southern Qi; Book of Liang; Book of Chen 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen held out in the south of the Yangtze for a century and a half, facing northern minority regimes across…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Wei; Book of Northern Qi; Book of Zhou; Book of Sui cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Book of Wei; Book of Northern Qi; Book of Zhou; Book of Sui 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Northern Dynasties and the Sui dynasty were turbulent periods in Chinese history. Regimes that rose in northern China went through a period of Nor…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Liao; History of Jin; History of Western Xia cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Liao; History of Jin; History of Western Xia 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 During the Five Dynasties and Northern Song periods, three minority regimes rose successively in the north: the Liao of the Khitan, the Western Xia of…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Five Dynasties cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of the Five Dynasties 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have long been regarded as a typical age of decline and disorder in ancient Chinese society. Drawing on the compil…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Yuan cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: History of Yuan 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Mongol Empire was the largest empire in world history, with almost the whole of Eurasia under its sway. Unfortunately, the Yuan shi in the old Twe…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories (15 Volumes) cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories (15 Volumes) 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 The Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories (15 volumes) is an upgraded edition of the Twenty-Five Histories: A New Compilation, which our press d…
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Records of the Grand Historian cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories: Records of the Grand Historian 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2019 This volume begins with the legendary Five Emperors and ends with the Qin, preserving the essence of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian while …
A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories cover
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A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories 李国章 / 赵昌平 / 汪受宽 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2018 A Concise Reader of the Twenty-Five Histories is a large-scale popular history work revised and upgraded from the Twenty-Five Histories Newly Compiled…

Publishers

Shanghai Classics Publishing HouseNational Library of China Publishing HouseQinghai People's Publishing House