An article titled Reading between the Lines of a Classical Chinese Prose Anthology: Guwen guanzhi as a Subtle Challenge to State Orthodoxy, written by FIIA Senior Research Fellow Jyrki Kallio has been published in the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies. The journal is published by the European Association for Chinese Studies and the theme of issue 1/2021 of the journal is censorship.
The article argues, that the Chinese prose anthology Guwen guanzhi promoted autonomous thought and it can be seen as subtle critique towards authoritarianism, although it is not certain how intentional this critique has been.
The article can be accessed on the publisher’s webpage.
Jyrki Kallio
Senior Research Fellow