About the author

Wang Ao was a well-known literatus-official of the Ming dynasty, and the works by him that survive are close in genre to notes and miscellaneous records. The collection contains six of his works, including Wang Wenke Gong Biji, Zhenze Changyu, Zhenze Jiwen, and Shouxi Biji, which suggests that much of his writing takes the form of informal jottings, recording observations and offering remarks and reflections. Because public information is limited, his life, native place, and dates of birth and death cannot be reliably established, so this note confines itself to the works. Judging from their common classification under classics, social sciences, culture, literary appreciation, and Eastern philosophy, his writings combine historical and literary value with intellectual interest; his tone is plain and attentive to record and verification, and they offer some reference for understanding the observations and views of Ming-dynasty literati.

Written (6)

Rating 3.6★ Extended Discourses from Zhenze 王鏊 · 2024 Traditional Chinese cultural thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are highly distinctiv… Rating 3.5★ Records of Things Heard at Zhenze 王鏊 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early thought forms are distinctive: religious theolog… Rating 3.4★ Notes of Lord Wang Wenke 王鏊 Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Song scholar Song Lian enjoyed imperial favor longer than any other man of letters in the Hongwu era. After retiring on grounds of old age, he would c… Rating 3.3★ Notes from Shouxi 王鏊 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are distinctive: r… Rating 3.3★ Notes of Lord Wang Wengke 王鏊 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are distinctive: … Rating 3.7★ Notes of Lord Wang Wengke 王鏊 Nanhai Publication Company · 2023 This book is Wang Wenke Gong Biji (Notes of Lord Wenhke Wang), written by Wang Ao.

Publishers

Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju)Nanhai Publication Company