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Madame Wang seeing Pao-yü in a sullen humour jumped at the surmise that it must be due to Chin Ch'uan's affair of the day before; and so ill at ease did she feel that she heeded him less than ever.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

_Chapter Four_ p. 51: I have used here the general framework of R.L. Walker, but more upon Yang K'uan's studies.p. 52: The interpretation of the change of myths in this period is based in part upon the work done by H. Maspero, G. H.loun, and Ku Chieh-kang.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Huan K'uan's work may thus be regarded as among the earliest influences which finally formed the Confucian canon.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

In the undertaking of reproducing in a Western language, utterly alien to the original Chinese literary medium, Huan K'uan's first nineteen chapters, I have been fortunate in availing myself of the methods of the European school of sinology.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

Huan K'uan's work, though nominally representing a debate on the state control of salt and iron, actually covers a far broader field than the title indicates.

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It is a striking fact that Huan K'uan's work reveals only one direct quotation from the monumental compilation of his immediate predecessor, and in part at least contemporary, the historiographer

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The latter stylistic method undoubtedly became more favored by Huan K'uan's time with the rising tide of literary production, as well as because of the recovered writings of the pre-Ch'in period, furnishing a vast treasury to draw upon.

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For Huan K'uan's pages not only introduce the reader to the author's own times, but lead back to the earlier world of Chinese origins in history and tradition.

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But Huan K'uan's citations, notably in the case of the Lun-yü, prove to be more faithful to the accepted (i.e. present day) texts than those of the historiographer. 2

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It seems as if the text of the Kung-yang commentary in Huan K'uan's time differed somewhat from the modern one.

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