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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in Tang history who want to build an overall understanding
- Middle school students and history enthusiasts who need background knowledge on the Tang
- Office workers who enjoy general popular history books and reading in fragmented time
- Parents preparing to introduce history to their children
Not a good fit for
- Professional historians seeking in-depth textual research and specialized studies
- Readers expecting extensive quotations from primary sources and academic annotations
- Readers who prefer novel-like plots and legendary characters
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and chronology first to establish a time frame, then read chapter by chapter
- Consult maps of Tang territory while reading to understand the spatial changes of expansion and contraction
- After finishing each period, summarize its key changes in two or three sentences
- Read alongside an anthology of Tang poetry to sense the spirit of the era through literature
About the publisher
Bashu Publishing House is a publisher centered on collating and publishing classical Chinese cultural texts, with its main publishing areas covering classical literature, Eastern philosophy, ancient poetry, and educational classics. Its library currently holds 1,075 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Renjian Cihua, and Out to the Frontier, involving authors such as Cao Xueqin, Wang Xizhi, Wang Guowei, Wang Changling, Liu Xie, and Yan Yu. These reflect the publisher's focus on literary classics, poetry criticism, and philosophical readings. Its publishing character lies in working around ancient texts and canonical works, with attention to textual collation and presentation. Public information on its more detailed publishing background and series plans is limited; this introduction is based only on the library's book information.
Contents
- 版权信息
- ○蟋蟀
- ○山有枢
- ○扬之水
- ○椒聊
- ○绸缪
- ○杕杜
- ○羔裘
- ○鸨羽
- ○无衣
- ○有杕之杜
- ○葛生
- ○采苓
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About the author
Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
