Hanshu yiwenzhi
The Hanshu yiwenzhi ( Chinese 漢書 · 藝文志 / 汉书 · 艺文志 , English Treatise on Literature - "Bibliographical Section of the History of the Western or Earlier Han Dynasty, short: Literary Catalog of the Hanshu") is the bibliographic section of the history of the Western or Earlier Han -Dynasty of the famous Chinese historian Ban Gu ( 班固 ) (32–92), who completed this history of the Han dynasty (−206 to +8) begun by his father. The catalog forms the 30th section (juan).
The basis for the catalog is the preparatory work by Liu Xin ( 劉歆 / 刘歆 , Liu Hsin , † 23 AD), who wrote a description of the imperial library.
The catalog provides important information on the literature of the various Chinese intellectual currents of the pre-Qin period (see Nine currents ), of which there are often only scattered and fragmentary source texts.
Example Zhuangzi
The information on the philosophical work Zhuangzi ( 莊子 ) in this catalog reads as follows: " 五十 二 篇。 名 周 ， 宋人。 " From this we gather that the author of this catalog was aware of a version of 52 chapters (pian) instead of the 33 chapters (pian) of the version by Guo Xiang ( 郭象 ), which are widely used today . The author's first name is given as Zhou ( 周 ), and we finally learn that he is from Song ( 宋 ) state .
The authorship of the Zhuangzi cannot be discussed here.
literature
- Michael Loewe (ed.): Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley 1993
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anthony Paul François Hulsewé: Han shu , in: Loewe (1993: 130)