Author: Pan Wenguo
Publisher: East China Normal University Press
Publication Date: September 2023
ISBN: 9787576040630
The "Six Classics" are the source of Chinese culture, and the "Four Categories" (Confucian classics, histories, philosophies, and literary collections) form the general outline of traditional Chinese culture. The evolution from the "Six Classics" to the system of "Confucian classics, histories, philosophies, and literary collections" represents a process of "cultivation through culture" and constitutes the main thread of the formation and development of Chinese culture.
Adhering to the "Three Principles" (returning to the original structure, clarifying the origins and development, and carefully studying the original classics), Comprehensive Interpretation of Classics: A Cultural Exegesis of Confucian Classics, Histories, Philosophies, and Literary Collections takes chronology and categories as its framework, with thought and culture as its core, and is oriented towards integration and exegesis, unfolding a unique panorama of the traditional Four Categories of books for readers.
Appended at the end of the book is a "List of Five Hundred Ancient Books," which serves two purposes: first, as the source of citations and bibliography for the entire book; second, as a "book list" for sinology based on the viewpoints put forward in this book.
