Classical chinese writers were trained as compilers rather than as originators composing information. These writers in Classical Chinese were trained by memorizing extensive tracts in the classics and histories. Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of Written Chinese based on the Grammar and Vocabulary of ancient Chinese Their method of constructing their own work was to extensively cut and paste passages and fragments from these sources. Today this would be called plagiarism. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work However, these early Chinese writers considered themselves not as creators, but as preservers of the record. The continuing controversy over the meaning of Chinese text is best understood by examining the classical scholar's way of writing. Zhu Xi was a great editor and commentator but his prime aim was moral learning, considered far more important than art or literature. Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (朱熹 born October 18, 1130, Yuxi, Fujian province China &ndash died April 23, 1200 Zhu Xi cemented Confucian moral righteousness into the Chinese methods of evaluation. Confucianism ( is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the fifth century B Joseph Needham has said, Chinese writers made careful note of observable concrete phenomena but they made little use of categorical analysis or the building of logical systems. Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, CH, FRS, FBA ( December 9, 1900 – March 24 1995) was a British In formal logic, a formal system (also called a logical system, a logistic system, or simply a logic Formal systems in mathematics consist [1]
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- ^ Fairbank, John King (2006). China: A New History, 2nd, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp 99-101. ISBN 0-674-01828-1.