About the author
Yang Xiong was a prominent scholar and rhapsody writer of the Western Han dynasty. Publicly available information on his birth and death dates, native place, and early life is limited, and details of his biography often depend on later records. The library holds four of his works, spanning classics, Eastern philosophy, and social sciences, including the "Collected Masterpieces of the Four Great Han Rhapsody Writers," "Yuan Qian," and "Yangzi Fayan (unannotated edition)." Yang Xiong excelled in both rhapsody and philosophical writing: his fu compositions are grand in scope and finely elaborated, representing the typical style of the Han grand rhapsody, while works such as the Fayan emulate the classics to expound Confucian learning and the principles of human affairs in concise, severe prose, reflecting a turn from rhapsody toward scholarly reflection. His language is archaic and terse, fond of emulating antiquity yet forming a style of his own, and he influenced later literature and thought. Owing to limited historical sources, this introduction summarizes his creative profile based only on the library's holdings and commonly accepted knowledge, without speculating about his life.
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Rating 4.5★ A Collection of Masterpieces by the Four Great Masters of Han Fu 司马相如 / 扬雄 / Ban Gu / 张衡 · 2024 The Four Masters of Han Fu refers to Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu, and Zhang Heng of the Han dynasty. All four left famous works of the "grand fu"… Rating 4.3★ Yuan and Qian 扬雄 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Yuanqian is a classic of Chinese learning by Yang Xiong. Rating 3.0★ Yuan and Qian 扬雄 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features: relig… Rating 4.2★ The Model Sayings of Yangzi (Unannotated Edition) 扬雄 · 2015 Ancient Chinese culture is broad, profound, and of long standing, and is one of the most important components of world culture. In compiling this seri… Fa Yan (Complete Edition with Full Annotation and Translation, Chinese Classics Masterworks Series) 扬雄 / Han Jing Zhonghua Book Company · 2012 Fa Yan is a collection of sayings written by the Western Han thinker Yang Xiong in imitation of the Analects. It is a philosophical work in thirteen c… Fa Yan (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) 扬雄 / Han Jing Zhonghua Book Company · 2012 Fa Yan is a collection of aphorisms modeled on The Analects by the Western Han scholar Yang Xiong (53 BCE–18 CE). The work consists of thirteen scroll…Publishers
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