Qu You
Qu (瞿) Qu You (1341–1427), courtesy name Zongji (宗吉) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (存齋, "Reading Studio of Existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing dynasty. Qu You was born in Qiantang (錢塘, now Hangzhou), Qu You was famous as an adolescent poet. He became a teacher-official (教諭) in Lin'an (臨安), then promoted to be the Head of Secretary (長史) of the Zhou (周) Kingdom.
Qu You
- Born
- 1341 · Hangzhou.
- Died
- 1427
- Nationality
- Yuan dynasty · Ming dynasty
- Occupation
- novelist · poet · writer · scholar
- Languages
- Chinese
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Qu (瞿) Qu You (1341–1427), courtesy name Zongji (宗吉) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai (存齋, "Reading Studio of Existence"), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing dynasty. Qu You was born in Qiantang (錢塘, now Hangzhou), Qu You was famous as an adolescent poet. He became a teacher-official (教諭) in Lin'an (臨安), then promoted to be the Head of Secretary (長史) of the Zhou (周) Kingdom.
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But at the height of his career, he became implicated in a dispute between the Hongwu Emperor and Zhu Su and was jailed in 1408. After his release in 1425, he worked as a tutor in the household of Lord of Ying State (英國公). He was reinstated as an official, but he resigned shortly, never returning to the world of politics again, in action. His works, though entertaining, have undertone that expresses concerns and discontent that he had with the Zhu family and politics of the Ming dynasty.
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- 1.Jacques Dars, dans André Lévy (dir.), Dictionnaire de littérature chinoise, Presses universitaires de France, coll. « Quadrige », 1994, rééd. 2000, p. 254-255.
- 2.Jacques Dars, avant-propos à
- 3.Kang-I Sun Chang (dir.) et Stephen Owen (dir.), The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. From 1375, vol. II, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 8-10
- 4.Jacques Dars, avant-propos à
- 5.Andrea Bréard, « How to quantify the value of domino combinations? Divination and shifting rationalities in late imperial China », in Coping with the Future : Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia, ed. Michael Lackner, Leiden, Brill, 2017 (Sinica Leidensia, 138), p. 499-529 ; Ead., « Homo ludens mathematicus. La quantification du hasard dans les pratiques combinatoires en Chine », Études chinoises, 33-2, 2014, p. 73-102.
- 6.Jacques Dars, avant-propos à
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