Literati Use of Oral or Oral-Related Genres to Talk about History in the Late Ming and Early Qing: From Yang Shen to Jia Fuxi and Gui Zhuang, and from Education (Jiaohua) to Cursing the World (Mashi)

Abstract

By the mid-seventeenth century, Chinese literati had experimented with treating the ups and downs of Chinese history in almost all genres.1 One of the shared goals was to provide future generations...