Yuanchun Tan
Tan Tan Yuanchun (譚元春/谭元春, 1586-1637, courtesy name Tan Youxia 譚友夏) was a prolific late-Ming scholar from Hubei. Tan Yuanchun's work remains as an important resource for modern scholars. He was an influential and best-selling author critic.
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Yuanchun Tan
- Born
- Yuanchun Tan was born in 1586. · Hubei.
- Died
- Yuanchun Tan died in 1637.
- Nationality
- Ming dynasty
- Occupation
- literary critic · poet · writer
- Languages
- Classical Chinese · Old Mandarin
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Tan Tan Yuanchun (譚元春/谭元春, 1586-1637, courtesy name Tan Youxia 譚友夏) was a prolific late-Ming scholar from Hubei. Tan Yuanchun's work remains as an important resource for modern scholars. He was an influential and best-selling author critic.
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Tan is known as one of the "Ming masters of close textual reading". From 1614 Tan Yuanchun collaborated with his friend Zhong Xing on a bestselling poetry anthology Gu shigui (Models of ancient poetry), published around 1617, in three colours, with Zhong's and Tan's comments differentiated by colour.
The recorded working language is Classical Chinese and Old Mandarin.
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Yuanchun Tan was born at Hubei.
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- 1.Kai-wing Chow. Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. Stanford University Press. 131. 2004. 978-0-8047-3368-7.
- 2.Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 132.2 pp.275-300 (http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf), 286-287
- 3.Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 132.2 pp.275-300 (http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf), 286-287
- 4.Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 132.2 pp.275-300 (http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf), 286-287
- 5.Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 132.2 pp.275-300 (http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf), 286-287
- 6.Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 132.2 pp.275-300 (http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf), 286-287
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