The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (simplified Chinese: 唐才子传; traditional Chinese: 唐才子傳; pinyin: Táng Cái Zǐ Zhuán; Wade–Giles: Tang3 Tsai1 Tzu3 Chuan1) is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.

Compiler and date

It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure Xin Wenfang.[1]

Contents

It is in ten volumes,[1] and contains biographies of 278 poets.[1]

Textual tradition

The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty.[1] It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains,[1] and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Satō 1994.

Works cited

  • Satō, Tamotsu (1994). "Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (Tō sai shi den in Japanese)". Encyclopedia Nipponica (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
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