Tang Cai Zi Zhuan Explained

The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.

Compiler and date

It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure .

Contents

It is in ten volumes, and contains biographies of 278 poets.

Textual tradition

The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty. It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains, and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.

Works cited

• Encyclopedia: . Satō . Tamotsu . Tamotsu Satō . Tang Cai Zi Zhuan (Tō sai shi den in Japanese) . japanese . 1994 . . 2017-10-22 .

External links

• Full text at the Chinese Text Project