China's first systematic account of rhetoric: An introduction to Chen Kui's Wen Ze

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-152

  Kirkpatrick, Andy ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34548453284     PISSN: 07348584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/rh.2005.23.2.103     Document Type: Article

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29. It is customary to refer to the "Five Classics and Four Books." The five Confucian Classics are The Yi Jing (The Book of Changes)
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44. Liu Yancheng adds this sentence in brackets (n. 8 above, p.88).
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48. "The old man" is Confucius.
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