Preservation of learning = Cun xue bian : with an introduction on his life and thought ... Translated

by Mansfield Freeman by Yüan Yan

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Los Angeles: University of California, 1972. First edition, 8vo, pp. 3 , v, 215, 1 ; fine copy in original red cloth, dust jacket, and publisher's box. Issued as no. XVI in the publisher's Monumenta Serica Monograph series. Yan Yuan 1635-1704 was a Chinese classicist, essayist, and philosopher. He founded the practical school of Confucianism to contrast with the more ethereal Neo-Confucianism that had been popular in China for the previous six centuries

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