The Beginning of Righteousness: a Study of Early Tongcheng School Writers
by Shi Yahui
About This Novel
It is generally believed that the real establishment of the Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty began with Yao Nai's intentional shaping of the "Tongcheng Cultural Tradition" during the Qianlong period. So what was the history of the "Tongcheng School" before Yao? The author believes that from the time when Dai Mingshi, Zhu Shu and others brought tribute to the Imperial Academy in the 25th year of Kangxi to the 50th year of Kangxi when the case of Dai Mingshi's "Nanshan Collection" occurred, there was a group of Jiangnan scholars in the literary world with Dai Mingshi and Fang Bao as the core. Similar origins, similar aspirations, overlapping experiences, and deep friendships make them an influential and inheriting group of writers. The whole book describes the literary activities of this group from three aspects: era background, stylistic theory, and author theory, fully demonstrating their motivation and practice of striving to "correct their voice" at a time when "the world is full of miscellaneous articles for pleasure".
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