The Practice of Usurpation
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in political history and power transitions from the pre-Qin to the Ming and Qing
- Chinese learners needing examples of classical vocabulary and historical narrative sources
- Beginners studying the reception history of Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms or Qing literary criticism
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a systematic institutional history of usurpation or a complete monograph
- Casual readers wanting vernacular retellings or popular historical romances
Reading tips
- Read the two quotations first, mark the context in which xingcuan appears, then check the plot around chapter 73 of Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms.
- Compare Yun Jing's judgment on Yingzong's restoration with the relevant records in the History of Ming, noting differences in wording between historical narrative and literary collection.
- Keep a notebook with three columns—person, event, wording—to accumulate material on classical historical commentary.
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.
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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.
