Young-tsu Wong 汪榮祖 is best-known in the English-speaking world for A Paradise Lost: The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan.
Workin' It in Taiwan
He's also the author of The Compleat Historiographer 史傳通說(中西史學之比較) a 'work modeled on the historiographical section Liu Xie's Wenxin diaolong. It divides historical thought into Liu Xie's 24 sections (nb: biography is number 8) and makes comparisons between Chinese forms and Western forms. Prof. Zhao quotes this in his second chapter, on the way the need for stating the historical significance of a narrative in a single, unifying way causes distortion.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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