Striking the Cracks
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in pre-Qin thought, the arts of political persuasion, and the study of names and disputation
- Enthusiasts who enjoy close reading of short chapters and savoring classical texts sentence by sentence
- Researchers concerned with the examination of speech and methods of causal reasoning
Not a good fit for
- General readers expecting a complete narrative or systematic theoretical work
- Beginners lacking a foundation in classical Chinese who are unwilling to use commentaries
- Readers hoping for a modern management or strategy how-to guide
Reading tips
- First copy out or read aloud the original sentence by sentence, marking key terms such as "joining and parting," "di xi," and "turning to the past to verify the coming," and look up their meanings.
- Use a reliable annotated translation to understand the text, then return to the original without notes to test whether you have truly grasped it.
- After each passage, summarize its argument in your own words and try to set it against an example of communication and judgment from real life.
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
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- 抵巇第四
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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.
