Enigma Variations
Huang Zongxi's “Expectation of a New Age”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11206329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn Struve (0009-0005-1758-3657, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1998 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-85 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ming Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-037X • E-ISSN: 1759-7595 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/014703798788754345 |
| OpenAlex | W1970768728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
My memories of “Professor Hucker” (never quite “Charlie,” to me) go back to my days as a graduate student at the University of Michigan and to my participation with him in the Ming-Qing History Delegation to the PRC in the summer of 1979. Like others among his many students, I remember his urging that scholars “do something useful,” and I feel it has contributed to my own non-theoretical, pragmatic bent in publication. More influential, however, was his insistence that students write clear, well-formulated prose. Among all the professors I had, from college through the Ph.D., he is the only one who really forced me to attend to style, as in The Elements of ...and the Chicago Manual o.... As in Neo-Confucian self-cultivation, one is never “home free” when it comes to stylistic mastery, but I owe whatever drive I have toward mastery to Charles Hucker. I can still hear his injunction: “Say what you're going to say. Say it. Then say that you've said it.” At the time, I thought this was a terribly dull prescription for good composition. But I don't know how many times I've repeated this to my own students over the years
Art · Composition (language · Literature · Media studies · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |