"Daily"") as an inspirational political and military document. The initial publication covered 23 topics with 200 selected quotations by the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and was entitled ""200 Quotations from Chairman Mao"". It was first given to delegates of a conference on 5 January 1964 who were asked to comment on it. In response to the views of the deputies and compilers of the book, the work was expanded to address 25 topics with 267 quotations, and the title was changed simply to ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung"". On 10 January, the work was re-issued to the delegates"
"from the top Chinese leaders. Considered the most famous literary and propaganda piece produced by China during the Korean War, the essay succeed in elevating the soldiers' traditionally low social status within the Confucian culture, and helped to boost the recruitment of soldiers for the Korean War. In the decades following the essay's publication, the phrase ""most beloved people"" has become synonymous with the PVA in mainland China, while the essay has become required reading in Chinese school curriculum. Who are the Most Beloved People? Who are the Most Beloved People? () is the title of a famous essay about"
"Qin dynasty, but survived in four slightly different versions. The version preserved in the Mao family, known as the ""Mao shi"", is the fullest and best known. The version preserved by the Han family, or ""Han School,"" that is, the ""Han shi"", edited by Han Ying, reflects the family tradition of producing a quote from the ""Shijing"" to fit particular situations. The ""Han shi waizhuan"" collects stories or quotations to illustrate and interpret these quotes. Han Ying's biography in the ""Historical Records"" of Sima Qian says that he compiled two commentaries, the ""neizhuan"" (inner) and the ""waizhuan"" (outer), whose interpretations"
"Mingxin baojian The Mingxin baojian () is an ancient Chinese book containing ""a collection of aphorisms and quotations form the Chinese classics and other works"" The author and date of authorship are not reliably known, although later references suggest that it was compiled in 1393 by Fan Liben. The quotations and aphorisms in the book appear to be from scholarly writings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, with ""a great many of the quotations... taken from Taoist writings"", suggesting that the author was a follower of Taoism. The ""Mingxin baojian"" was the first book translated from Chinese into a Western language."
"Kongzi Jiayu The Kongzi Jiayu (), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius or Family Sayings of Confucius, is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the ""Analects"" (""Lunyu""). A book by the title had existed since at least the early Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and was listed in the 1st-century imperial bibliography ""Yiwenzhi"" with 27 scrolls. The extant version, however, was compiled by the Cao Wei official-scholar Wang Su (195–256 AD), and contains 10 scrolls and 44 sections. Chinese scholars had long concluded that the received text was a 3rd-century forgery"
"The Governance of China The Governance of China is a Chinese political book in two volumes written by Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China and current president of the People's Republic of China. The first volume was published in 2014, and the second volume was published in 2017. The work is a collection of several dozen speeches and writings by Xi on a variety of topics, which present an official party line for China's development in the 21st century. In these respects, ""Governance of China"" is a literary successor to Mao Zedong's ""Quotations from Chairman"
"also known as the Collection of Precious Glories has been found among the Dunhuang manuscripts, consisting of about one-fifth of the original, with fifty-five poems by thirteen men, first published in the reign of Wu Zetian (655–683). The book contains poems by Cui Rong (653–706), Li Jiao (644–713), Zhang Yue (677–731), and others. The most popular Tang Poems collection might be the so-called ""300 Tang Poems"" compiled by Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu. It is so popular that many poems in it have been adopted by Chinese language text books of China's primary schools and secondary schools. Some of the"
"featured over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages, printed in 60 different copies using copper-metal Chinese movable type printing. Other great encyclopedic writers include the polymath scientist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) and his ""Dream Pool Essays"", the agronomist and inventor Wang Zhen (fl. 1290–1333) and his ""Nongshu"", and the minor scholar-official Song Yingxing (1587–1666) and his ""Tiangong Kaiwu"". The rich tradition of Chinese poetry began with two influential collections. In northern China, the ""Shijing"" or ""Classic of Poetry"" (approx. 10th–7th century BC) comprises over 300 poems in a variety of styles ranging from those with a strong suggestion"
"decade he had friends of his in China send and smuggle them out in chunks. The book is a biography of Zhou Enlai, the Premier of China from 1949 to 1976, one of the most important Chinese leaders of his generation. Zhou is portrayed as ""a conflicted, even tragic, figure"", succeeding in remaining at the center stage of Chinese politics for fifty years, through the troubled years of the Long March and Cultural Revolution. In 2003 Gao wrote a similar book in Chinese, ""Zhou Enlai's Later Years"" (晚年周恩来), using similar research materials. The book has been praised for portraying Zhou"
"China's UN delegation. However, his spoken English was limited to a few single words, phrases, and some short sentences. He first chose to systematically learn English in the 1950s, which was very unusual as the main foreign language first taught in Chinese schools at that time was Russian. Mao was a prolific writer of political and philosophical literature. He is the attributed author of ""Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung"", known in the West as the ""Little Red Book"" and in Cultural Revolution China as the ""Red Treasure Book"" (): first published in January 1964, this is a collection of short"
"Zhuying ji Zhuying ji also known as the Collection of Precious Glories is a collection of Chinese poetry by Cui Rong, first published in the reign of Wu Zetian (690-705). The book contains poems by Cui Rong (653-706), Li Jiao (644-713), Zhang Yue (677-731), and others. The original work was long thought to be completely lost, however fragments constituting about one-fifth of the original have been found among the Dunhuang manuscripts, with fifty-five poems by thirteen men. One notable feature of this anthology is that Cui Rong arranged the work in descending order of official rank of the included poets;"
"Analects The Analects (; ; Old Chinese: ""*[r]u[n] ŋ(r)aʔ""; ), also known as the Analects of Confucius, is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475–221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). By the early Han dynasty the ""Analects"" was considered merely a ""commentary"" on the Five Classics, but the status of the ""Analects"" grew to be one of the central"
"is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you ... The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you."" 350 million copies of the book had been printed by December 1967. It was the mechanism that led the Red Guards to commit to their objective as the future for China. These quotes directly from Mao led to other actions by the Red Guards in"
"book"" and states that his ""painstaking research in newly opened local archives makes all too credible his estimate that the death toll reached 45 million people."" Sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar said the book is ""Pathbreaking ... a first-class piece of research ... [Mao] will be remembered as the ruler who initiated and presided over the worst man-made human catastrophe ever. His place in Chinese history is assured. Dikötter's book will have done much to put him there."" Jonathan Mirsky, a historian and journalist specialising in Asian affairs, said Dikötter's book ""is for now the best and last word on Mao's greatest"
"needs of the people for social organization. This developmental view contrasts with the view of the Neo-Confucians that Confucianism is the expression of timeless ""principles"" or ""patterns"" that are inherent in the human heart. Zhang's most famous quotation is that ""the six classics are all history"" 六經皆史. This means that the canonical texts of Confucianism are not to be understood as repositories of timeless wisdom, but as records of the actions and words of the sages in response to specific historical contexts. Zhang Xuecheng Zhang Xuecheng (; 1738–1801) was a Qing Dynasty historian, writer and philosopher. His father and his"
"China by the director of the State Science and Technology Commission, Song Jian, whom Kuhn considers his mentor. Since then he has worked with China's senior leaders and advised the Chinese government on international, policy and business matters. Kuhn is the author of ""How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders"", featuring exclusive discussions with more than 100 Chinese leaders and features President Xi Jinping. He wrote ""The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin"". It was the first biography of a living Chinese leader and was a best-seller in"
"his book 中国语文的时代演进 (Zhōngguó yǔwén de shídài yǎnjìn), translated into English by Zhang Liqing, was published in 2003 as ""The Historical Evolution of Chinese Languages and Scripts"". Beyond the age of 100, he published ten books, some of which have been banned in China. In 2011, during an interview with NPR, Zhou said that he hoped to see the day China changed its position on the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989, an event he said had ruined Deng Xiaoping's reputation as a reformer. He became an advocate of political reform and democracy in China, and was critical of the Communist"
"The latter book remains very popular today and outlines the 12 principles and 12 pitfalls of business management. The Twelve Golden Rules are as follows: The Twelve Golden Safeguards are as follows: Cartoon versions of this book are widely available in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, both in Mandarin Chinese and in English. The Mandarin version includes Hanyu Pinyin and an English translation for each of the original business principles. Fan Li Fan Li () from the Spring and Autumn period, was a prominent Chinese statesman, military strategist, diplomat, economist, philanthropist, Taoist, founder of Chuism (楚学), and the founding"
"The Man Who Changed China The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin a biography of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin by Robert Lawrence Kuhn was published in 2005, in English and Chinese. It has generated both attention and controversy. It was published worldwide except in China by Random House imprints (Crown Publishers in English, Random House Kodansha in Japanese, Random House JoongAng in Korean). In China, it was published under the title ""Ta Gai Bian Le Zhong Guo: Jiang Zemin Zhuan"" (《他改变了中国：江泽民传》, literal translation ""He Changed China: The Biography of Jiang Zemin"") by Shanghai Century"
"Anguo, as Wang had claimed. Scholars are now paying renewed attention to the text. Yang Chaoming (楊朝明), author of the 2005 book ""Kongzi Jiayu Tongjie"" (孔子家語通解), considers the ""Kongzi Jiayu"" no less valuable than the ""Analects"" to the study of Confucius. Kongzi Jiayu The Kongzi Jiayu (), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius or Family Sayings of Confucius, is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the ""Analects"" (""Lunyu""). A book by the title had existed since at least the early Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and was listed in the 1st-century"
"and without doubt, the best-known Chinese book. I Ching's influence As an important component of Chinese traditional culture, the I Ching's influence throughout history has been profound. The ""I Ching"" (Yì Jīng), or ""Classic of Changes"", which dates from over 3,000 years ago, is believed to be one of the world's oldest books. The two major branches of Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism have common roots in the ""I Ching"". From its mythological origins in prehistory (""see"" Fu Xi) and the earliest dates of recorded history in China, the ""I Ching"" has been added to by a succession of philosophers,"
"PRC during the [Cold War] shocked Americans, who, at the time, knew very little about the PRC. Since 1969, China Books has sold over a million copies of the Little Red Book or Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong. At the height of business, before the June Fourth Incident of 1989, China Books thrived with stores in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York and employed over 50 people. China Books was instrumental in providing books, newspapers, and magazines from China which were instrumental in establishing collections of post-1949 Chinese political and reference materials at university and other research libraries across the"
"Notes"" and other fast-moving global Chinese reading circles, it is called ""the most modern Chinese literature books with the largest printing volume"". He has thus become one of the most influential Chinese writers in the world. In June 1998, the grand cross-century cultural dialogue was convened in Singapore to shake the Chinese world. The main characters of the dialogue are four Chinese scholars, in addition to Professor Yu Qiuyu, Professor Du Weiming from Harvard University, Professor Gao Xijun from the University of Wisconsin, and artist Chen Ruixian. Yu Qiuyu’s speech titled “The Fourth Bridge”. Since 1999, he has presided over"
"from 2,579 different texts, ranging from poetry, proverbs, and steles to miscellaneous works. Third, the 985 ""Wenyuan Yinghua"" (""Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature""), quotes from many literary genres, dating from the Liang dynasty to the Five Dynasties era. Fourth, the ""Cefu Yuangui"" (""Models from the Archives""), was the largest Song encyclopedia, almost twice the size of the ""Taiping Yulan"". Li Fang began compilation in 1005 while Wang Qinruo and others finished in 1013. It comprises quotes from political essays, biographies, memorials, and decrees. Another notable Song ""leishu"" encyclopedia was the polymath Shen Kuo's 1088 ""Mengxi Bitan"" (""Dream Pool"
"Siku Quanshu The Siku Quanshu, variously translated as the ""Complete Library in Four Sections"", ""Imperial Collection of Four"", ""Emperor's Four Treasuries"", ""Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature"", or ""Complete Library of the Four Treasuries"", is the largest collection of books in Chinese history. The complete encyclopedia contains an annotated catalogue of 10,680 titles along with a compendiums of 3,593 titles. The ""Siku Quanshu"" ended up surpassing the Ming dynasty's 1403 ""Yongle Encyclopedia"" in size, which was China's largest encyclopedia prior to the creation of the Siku Quanshu. Late in the 18th Century, Qing dynasty set about a momentous task,"
"giám Vietnamese. It was included in ""The Chinese Repository"", translated by William Milne. Mingxin baojian The Mingxin baojian () is an ancient Chinese book containing ""a collection of aphorisms and quotations form the Chinese classics and other works"" The author and date of authorship are not reliably known, although later references suggest that it was compiled in 1393 by Fan Liben. The quotations and aphorisms in the book appear to be from scholarly writings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, with ""a great many of the quotations... taken from Taoist writings"", suggesting that the author was a follower of Taoism. The"
"Guanzi (text) The Guanzi () is an ancient Chinese political and philosophical text that is named for and traditionally attributed to the 7th century BCE statesman Guan Zhong, who served as Prime Minister to Duke Huan of Qi. At over 135,000 characters long, the ""Guanzi"" is one of the longest early Chinese philosophical texts. The Han Dynasty scholar Liu Xiang edited the received ""Guanzi"" text circa 26 BCE. It contains a wide variety of material from many different authors over several successive centuries, largely associated with the 4th century BCE Jixia Academy in the Qi capital of Linzi, but it"
"Classic of Poetry The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry () is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the ""Five Classics"" traditionally said to have been compiled by Confucius, and has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. It is also a rich source of ""chengyu"" (four-character classical idioms) that are still a part of learned discourse and"
"""Four Great Books of Song"". Wenyuan Yinghua The Wenyuan Yinghua (), sometimes translated as ""Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature"", is an anthology of poetry, odes, songs and writings from the Liang dynasty to the Five Dynasties era. The book was compiled by a team of officers headed by Li Fang under an imperial order from 982 to 986, during the Song dynasty. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 38 genus by sections with 19,102 pieces of works written by about 2,200 authors, much of the crucial compilation of the writings came from the Tang dynasty scholars. It"
"of the compilation is the ""Discourses of Zhou"". ""Guoyu"" overlaps with the period, people, events in the Zuo zhuan. It comprises eight books covering the Zhou court and seven of the feudal states, divided into 21 chapters: Guoyu (book) The Guoyu, usually translated Discourses of the States, is an ancient Chinese text that consists of a collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period (771–476). It comprises a total of 240 speeches, ranging from the reign of King Mu of Zhou (r. 956918) to the execution of the Jin minister Zhibo in 453."
"China"" by British historian Joseph Needham. The Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty oversaw the compilation of the ""Yongle Encyclopedia"", one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 370 million Chinese characters in 11,000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 remain today. In the succeeding Qing dynasty, the Qianlong Emperor personally composed 40,000 poems as part of a 4.7 million page library in 4 divisions, including thousands of essays, called the ""Siku Quanshu"" which is probably the largest collection of books in the world. It is instructive to compare his title for"
"1990s. The books collected a range of anecdotes and highlights from over 2000 celebrities and researchers. The series became highly reputable and widely accepted when it was released. As the last volume of the series published in October 1994, another edition of the series were published in Hong Kong and Taiwan shortly after. The work was awarded the ""Chinese Book Prize"" in 1993. In addition to his books Xiao also wrote several notable essays. Though Xiao wrote no more than 20 essays, they played a very important role in the development of Chinese essay history. All his works were published"
"Book of Documents The Book of Documents (Shujing, earlier ""Shu-king"") or Classic of History, also known as the Shangshu (""Esteemed Documents""), is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over 2,000 years. The ""Book of Documents"" was the subject of one of China's oldest literary controversies, between proponents of different versions of the text. The ""New Text"" version was preserved from Qin Shi Huang's burning of books and burying of scholars by scholar Fu Sheng."