Gu Jin Xing Shi Zu Pu

by Herbert Allen Giles

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: public documents. The favour showu to him excited jealousy, and in 1689 he was denounced in a long and virulent diatribe by Kuo Hsiu as the head of a faction organised for purposes of rapacity by abuse of the Imperial favour. In 1694 he was restored to office. Author of a work on art, jottings on history and books, and journals of Imperial progresses. Canonised as 'j. 962 Kao Ssu-sun $J $] (T. g] ). 12th cent. A.D. A poet aud miscellaneous writer, who graduated as chin shih in 1184. Author of the, an investigation into various points recorded in history, and also of a collection of writings entitled j]Ij Hj: jj]. To him is due the honour of being the first critic to expose the claims of the spurious work which still passes under the name of Lieh Tzu. 963 Kao T'ang . 3rd and 2nd cent. B.C. A scholar of the Han dynasty, famous for the assistance he gave towards restoring the text of the Canon of Bites subsequent to the burning of the books by the First Emperor. His work on the subject was known as the - jjj]. Kao Ti. See (Han) Liu Pang; (Ch'i) Hsiao Tao-ch'eng. Kao Tsu. See (Han) Liu Pang; (Sui) Yang Chien; (T'aug) Li Yuan; (L. Chin) Shih Ching-t'ang; (L. Han) LiuChih-yiian. Kao Tsung. See (Sung) Chao Kou; (T'ang) Li Chin. 964 Kao Yang y (T. - j!). Died A.D. 559. Son of Kao Huan, and first Emperor of the Northern Ch'i dynasty which he established in 550 (see Yuan Shan-chien). He was a cruel debauchee, but ruled with a firm hand. He was succeeded by his son Yin, known in history as j]], who was deposed by the Empress Dowager after a reign of eight months. Canonised as ]j Jfjj j] jt] jj 965 Kao Yao Jjl jJ (T. Jj] g]). Died B.C. 2204. A famous Minister under the Emperor Shun, said to have been the first to introduce laws for the repression of crime. ...

306 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2012

About the author

Educated at Charterhouse, Herbert Allen Giles was a British diplomat and author of books on China and the Far East. He served as British Vice-consul at Pagoda Island from 1880 to 1883 and at Shanghai from 1883 to 1885. He then became Consul at Tamsui in 1885 and in 1891 at Ningpo. He taught Chinese at Cambridge and, in 1902, became a senior lecturer at Columbia University. His works include Chinese Sketches (1876), Historic China (1882), The Remains of Lao Tzu (1886), China and the Chinese (1902), The Civilization of China (1911), Confucianism and Its Rivals (1915) and The Second Hundred Best Characters (1922).