Duan Yucai

Duan Yucai
( Qingdai xuezhe xiangzhuan )

Shuowen jiezi zhu 说文解字 注 , page 1

Duan Yucai's Tomb ( Jiangsu Province Memorial )

Duan Yucai Memorial (Duan Yucai jinianguan)

Duan Yucai ( Chinese  段玉裁 , Pinyin Duàn Yùcái , W.-G. Tuan Yü-ts'ai ; born 1735; died 1815) was a well-known Chinese linguist and grammatologist. He is from Jintan in Jiangsu Province and was close friends with the linguist Dai Zhen . He was a member of the Wan School (Anhui School), which also included Wang Niansun and Wang Yinzhi . As a civil servant, he accepted a post in the border region, later he returned to linguistics. He is particularly known for his work on Xu Shen's masterpiece Shuowen jiezi and that on Shangshu . Materials on his life story are included in the Qingshi gao ( 清史稿 ) and Qingshi liezhuan ( 清史 列傳 ) , among others . His grave has been on the Jiangsu Province Monuments List since 2002 .

Works (selection)

• Guwen Shangshu zhuanyi 古文尚书撰 异 ( Huang Qing jingjie皇 清 经 解)
• Shuowen jiezi zhu 说文解字 注 (Photographic reproduction of the 1981 Shanghai guji chubanshe after printing in the Jingyunlou Collection 经 韵 楼 藏 版)
• Liushu yinyun biao六 书 音韵 表 ( Zhonghua shuju 1983)

See also

• Xunguxue (Chinese)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Chinese 说文解字 or Shuowen for short 说 文
2. ↑ Chinese 尚书, Shu书 for short
3. ↑ cf. HYDZD Bibliography, Nos. 2 and 87
4. ↑ cf. ECCP .

literature

• Tu Lien-chê: "Tuan Yü-ts'ai", in: Arthur Hummel (Ed.) Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period . Digitized / e-text
• Qian Zengyi 钱 曾怡 and Liu Yuxin 刘 聿 鑫 (eds.): Zhongguo yuyanxue yaoji jieti (中国 语言学 要 籍 解题 'Basic Works of Chinese Linguistics'). Jinan: Qilu shushe 齐鲁书社 1991, ISBN 7-5333-0210-9 .
• Paul S. Ropp: Banished Immortal: Searching for Shuangqing, China's Peasant Woman Poet. 2002 ( partial online view )

Web links

• Duan Yucai 段玉裁
• Works ( ctext.org )
• On-line edition of Annotated Shuowen Jiezi
• Grammatologist Duan Yucai (1735-1815) (abstract)
• 《段玉裁 年谱 长 编》 ： 段玉裁 研究 的 里程碑 之 作

Commons : Duan Yucai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Tomb of Duan Yucai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files