Piotr Adamek: 1 book
Good Son is Sad If He Hears the Name of His Father
The Tabooing of Names in China as a Way of Implementing Social Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When in 1775 the scholar Wang Xihou compiled a dictionary called Ziguan , he wrote, for illustrative purposes, the personal names of Confucius and the three emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the introduction. In oversight, he recorded their complete names. This accidental writing of a few...
