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You Mao, also known as Yen Chi, is one of the “Four Great Poets of Rehabilitation” in the South-Song Dynasty. His poetries played a vital role in that era, however, most of his poetries and articles were destroyed in a fire incidence, which occurred in the first year of Ching Yuan. The dramatic loss of his poetries is one of the main reasons why later generations barely mention his poetries. Most of the private cataloged collections of books in Song Dynasty doesn’t exist anymore. Nowadays, only three catalogs of them are available: “Jun Zhai Bibliographic Guide” edited by Chao Gong-Wu, “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography” edited by You Mao, and “Problem-solving of Zhi Zhai Bibliography” by Chan Zhen-Sun. Among those three editors, You Mao is the pioneer for bibliography. Unfortunately, there is no literature available about the bibliography of You Mao. The main reason of unawareness about you-mao's creation were accidental loss of the literature and improper referencing in “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography. For the other two editors, a monograph of studied on the bibliography of Chao Gong-Wu is available as “Chao Gong-Wu and his Jun Zhai Bibliographic Guide” published by Liu Chao-Yu, and another monograph studying Chen ZhenSun is available as, “Chen Zhen-Sun and the Research on his publications” published by Ho kwong-yim. You Mao had extensively and innovatively disscussed the bibliography, which had a great impact on later generations. Hope this study will help us understand more about You Mao and his “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography”. In order to understand more about You Mao’s life, this study was based on the biography of You Mao in “History of Song” and You Yi’s “Chit-chat by Million Willows Creek” and others articles, such as “The Collation and Research of the Compilation of Song's Regulations”, “The Southern Song Dynasty's 'Guan Ge' record”, “Liang Yue Unpublished Manuscripts”, Yang Wan-li’s “Cheng Jhai Anthology” , and “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography”. This thesis was divided into six chapters: the first chapter is introduction, which shows the motive and objective of this topic. The pedigree of You Mao’s family, the background of his family, and some records of important characters in his family were presented in chapter two. The chapter three is about the background of You Mao, indicated on yearly basis with further details of his social activities and his publications. The chapter four is the main part of this thesis. Futher investigation of “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography” and the background, writing and features of this book have been elaborated in this chapter. The main character of “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography” is the detail records of different versions of books according to different dynasties. The chapter five illustrates the influence and impact of “edition index” of You Mao on later generations. The last chapter is overall conclusion and some field investigation results, such as pictures of You Mao’s house and his tombstone. The literatures of You Mao have mostly vansihed and are un-recognized, however, the “edition” method of biblography used in his “Sui Chu-Tang Bibliography” is not only an innovative method of biblography, but also brought the attention of following generations.
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