Tan Yuanchun (譚元春/谭元春, 1586-1637) was a prolific late-Ming scholar from
Hubei
Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...
.
Tan Yuanchun's work remains as an important resource for modern scholars.
He was an influential and best-selling author critic.
Tan is known as one of the "
Ming
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
masters of close textual reading".
From 1614 Tan Yuanchun collaborated with his friend
Zhong Xing on a bestselling poetry anthology ''Gu shigui'' (''Models of ancient poetry''), published around 1617, in three colours, with Zhong's and Tan's comments differentiated by colour.
Tan Yuanchun's work remains as an important resource for modern scholars.
[Swartz, Wendy (2012) "Revisiting the Scene of the Party: A Study of the Lanting Collection", ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', 132.2 pp.275-300]
http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/images/stories/Faculty_Profile/facultydocs/swartz.lanting%20collection.pdf
, 286-287
See also
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Wang Wei (courtesan)
References
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1586 births
1637 deaths
Ming dynasty poets
Ming dynasty people