Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China by Michael Nylan
Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
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Michael Nylan
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Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China

American Oriental

Michael Nylan

158 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced
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Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master remarks at one point in his Exemplary Figures, "Books are as sexy as women." Modern readers may frown at a comparison they regard as less than apt. Yang was supremely aware, however, of longst...

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