Fan Wenlan′s Wen Xin Diao Long(The literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons) Jiang Shu is the predecessor of his book
Annotation of Wen Xin Diao Long(The literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons). While the latter is widely read, few know the former. Annotation of Wen Xin Diao Long is richer in
content than
Wen Xin Diao Long Jiang Shu, with more
annotations and more content in these annotations. Much of what appears in Wen Xin Diao Long Jiang Shu has been rewritten or expanded in Annotation of Wen Xin Diao Long though the two books are roughly written in the same style except in layout: in the former the annotations come after the
original text while in the latter they are juxtaposed with the original. Wen Xin Diao Long Jiang Shu begins with two prefaces by Liang Qichao and
Fan Wenlan respectively. Liang′s preface has not been collected into Liang′s Corpus, nor into Annotation of Wen Xin Diao Long. It is little known to the world and thus of great value as a reference.
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