Talk:Literary inquisition

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Pinyin problems
Because of poor pinyin usage, I'm having trouble confirming some of the Qianlong incidents in the source given.

What are the Chinese characters for this "deceased Jiang Xu poet by the name of Su Jun"? Where is Jiang Xu? Who was Su Jun?

Who is Hu Zhongjou?

Would appreciate a bit of guidance on this.

Bathrobe (talk) 11:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

After Arilang1234 gave me the Chinese characters for all these names (here), I corrected the pinyin in this wiki, but as Bathrobe rightly pointed out to me, Xu Shukui is not mentioned on the Chinese website that supposedly described his case. Bathrobe then provided a reference to a passage in J.D. Schmidt's book on Yuan Mei that discusses Xu's case. I have just added this reference to the footnotes. Thank you, Bathrobe, for noticing the mistake and providing a new reference!--Madalibi (talk) 12:54, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Title
Should this article be at "Literary Inquisition" or "Literary inquisition"? Nev1 (talk) 13:03, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Earliest Practice of Literary Persecution
The article mentions that the earliest literary persecution is in Qin dynasty.But I am not sure if this is accurate though, as I found out in my research that the earliest literary persecution on record is actually in Spring and Autumn Period, prior to Qin dynasty. As recorded in Zuo Zhuan, three court historians (Taishi, "太史") of Qi (齐国) were killed by Duke Jing of Qi, who killed Duke Zhuang and took over the position, because they used the word "弑" (shi), which has a negative connotation, to describe this historical event. I found this to be the case in at least two different sources regarding literary inquisition in China. --YilinW722 (talk) 06:31, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Some Structural Changes and Additional Information
I am considering making some structural changes and adding new sections/information as I think there's lot more information about literary inquisition could be added. I am thinking about dividing the article to "Before Song Dynasty", "Song Dynasty", "Ming Dynasty" and "Qing Dynasty" instead of the current structure, since Song dynasty is a watershed where people became aware of literary inquisition as a tool for political conflicts and started to consciously used it in the politics, whereas the cases before Song dynasty are more isolated. Since there's already pretty substantial amount of information for "Qing dynasty", I will focus on "Before Song" and "Song" dynasty. Besides, I will also make minor edits in other sections. The sources I'm using is listed below (might add more as I work on the edits), I would love and welcome any feedback/thoughts/discussion on the change I'm gonna make and the sources! --YilinW722 (talk) 19:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Zhongqin., Li,; 李钟琴. (2008). Zhi ming wen zi : Zhongguo gu dai wen huo zhen xiang (Di 1 ban ed.). Hefei Shi: Anhui ren min chu ban she. ISBN 9787212032289. OCLC 276910255.
 * Qiguang., Hu,; 胡奇光. (1993). Zhongguo wen huo shi (Di 1 ban ed.). Shanghai: Shanghai ren min chu ban she. ISBN 7208015856. OCLC 31125076.
 * Han yu da ci dian. Luo, Zhufeng., 罗竹风., Han yu da ci dian bian ji wei yuan hui., Han yu da ci dian bian zuan chu., 汉语大词典编辑委員会., 汉语大词典编纂处. (Di 2 ban ed.). Shanghai: Han yu da ci dian chu ban she. (2003 printing). ISBN 7543200163. OCLC 48854704. Check date values in: |date= (help)
 * Yelin., Wang,; 王业霖. (2007). Zhongguo wen zi yu (Di 1 ban ed.). Guangzhou Shi: Hua cheng chu ban she. ISBN 9787536049109. OCLC 192095474.
 * Ku & Goodrich 1938, p. 255
 * Canglin., Xie,; 谢苍霖. (1991). San qian nian wen huo. Wan, Fangzhen., 万芳珍. (Di 1 ban ed.). Nanchang Shi: Jiangxi gao xiao chu ban she. ISBN 7810331175. OCLC 29495277.
 * Hartman, Charles (2003). "The Misfortunes of Poetry Literary Inquisitions under Ch'in Kuei (1090-1155)". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR). 25: 25–57. doi:10.2307/3594281.
 * Hartman, Charles (1993). "The Inquisition against Su Shih: His Sentence as an Example of Sung Legal Practice". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 113 (2): 228–243. doi:10.2307/603027.
 * Hu, Sichuan (2008). "The Study on the Reasons of Song Dynasty's Literary Inquisition / "宋代文字狱成因浅探."". 安康学院学报 / Journal of Ankang Teachers College. no. 2 (2008): 78 – via cnki.net.
 * Li, Xuanli; 李绚丽 (2013). "略论嘉庆朝文字狱政策终止的文化意义 / On Cultural Significance of Policy Termination for Literary Inquisition in Jiaqing Years". 教育文化论坛 / Tribune of Education Culture. no.3 (2013): 60 – via cnki.net.
 * Cao, Zhimin (2014). "朱珪的理念与嘉庆朝文字狱的终结 / Zhu Gui's Benevolent Policy and the Termination of Literary Inquisition in Jiaqing Dynasty". 北京科技大学学报（社会科学版） / Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing (Social Sciences Edition). no. 2 (2014): 72 – via cnki.net.


 * I have finished adding the aforementioned sections and information, I also added some information to the "Qing Dynasty" section. Due to the limit of time and quality, I decided to focus on these and aim to provide well-researched information backed up with good sources. I would welcome any feedback/suggestion on these information! However, I think there is still a lot of room for improvements on this article. The "Ming dynasty" has a lot to expand, and more information could be added to the influence/consequences and more cases in Qing dynasty. More importantly, literary inquisition has not ended; it still exists in modern China. It would be great if Wikipedia fellows could work on those sections in the future! --YilinW722 (talk) 00:06, 7 December 2018 (UTC)