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Ch'ien-lung

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Ch'ien-lung  (chynlng)
See Qianlong.

Ch'ien-lung [tʃɪˈænˈlɒŋ]
n
(Biographies) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qian Long


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Whereas the Met's exhibition had relied on a specific group of works that had been incorporated by the Ch'ien-lung emperor into a strictly hierarchical canon, the Guggenheim's show was to be curator Sherman Lee's selection of whatever good stuff could be found around the Mainland.
During his years at the Ch'ien-lung court, Chuang was exposed to scholars who belonged to the Han learning movement, a group which emphasized precise philological reconstruction of ancient texts rather than the more abstract moral speculations of Neo-Confucianism.
 
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