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  • 千字文與閨訓千字文 Master Essays in a Thousand (Chinese) Characters

千字文與閨訓千字文 Master Essays in a Thousand (Chinese) Characters

翟理斯 譯‧黃秉煒 編選

2004/01

Tags: Languages & Linguistics

245 x 174 mm , 168pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-957-455-624-3

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This volume is a part of a series of proposed books all of which will center on the works of Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935). It is based on Giles' rendering of two classics pioneer primers in Chinese, namely the Ch'ien Tze Wen (千字文) and the Kuei Hsn Ch'ien Tzu Wen (閨訓千字文).
 
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This volume has chosen to adapt the version attached to Jian Yun You Xue Shi Tie (鑑韻幼學詩帖) . In his "Odes for Children" (0ct 1835) which was included in The Chinese Repository (vol 4, pp. 287-291), Rev Elijah C. Bridgman noted the importance of the 詩帖 being the fourth in a series of schoolbooks needed for primary education of the Chinese.
 
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The Chien Tzu Wen was written by Chou Hsing-ssu 周興嗣who flourished about A.D. 550. The rendition of the Chien Tzu Wen by Giles has its original version, which was included in the Two Chinese Poems (Shanghai: A. H. de Carvalho, 1873)
 
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The rendition of the Kuei Hsn Ch'ien Tzu Wen as a Thousand Character Essay in 1874 by Giles was done as a contemporary piece to his work on the Ch'ien Tzu Wen. It was published in the bi-monthly The China Review v. 2 (1873-74). It is noted that later in Giles' autobiography, the rendition was renamed A Thousand Character Essay for Girls (See Giles manuscript "Autobibliographical, etc.": 13)
 
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Prior to the establishment of the Republic of China, the Kuei Hsn Ch'ien Tzu Wen was one of the primers for young learners. It was logical, therefore, for, Giles to select both of these pieces as twins in his rendition task because of their similarity in genre.

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