The Educational Background of Tang Shunzhi and Wang Shenzhong and Their Special Consciousness of the Cabinet -- The Later Seven Masters' Consciousness of Capital Ministries and Their Struggle Against Yan Song -- The Competition for the Leader Among the Later Seven Masters Against the Background of the Imperial Examinations -- 4 Zhuangyuan and Literature in the Ming Dynasty -- The Position of Literature in the Ming Imperial Examinations Seen from Zhuangyuan's Selection and Political Career -- Emphasis on and Paradigm of 'Literary Grace' -- Relations Between Zhuangyuan's Official Careers and Literature -- Evolution of the Cabinet Style as Seen from Zhuangyuan's Style of Writing -- Zhuangyuan's Style of Writing and the Prosperity of the Cabinet Style in the Early Ming -- The Turn of Kang Hai's Writing and the Decline of the Cabinet Style -- The Folk Complex of Zhuangyuan Jiao Hong and the End of Cabinet Style -- Distribution of Genres in the Ming Zhuangyuan's Collected Works -- Study on the Existing and Lost Collected Works of Zhuangyuan in the Ming Dynasty -- Zhuangyuan Whose Collected Works have been Lost -- Zhuangyuan Whose Collected Works Can Only Be Found in Relevant Written Descriptions -- Zhuangyuan Whose Collected Works Remain Preserved Today -- Genres in the Collected Works of the Ming Zhuangyuan -- The 'Most Important' and the 'Least Important' Genres -- The Three Major Categories of Prose: Presentation Prefaces, Stele Biographies, and Letters -- Different Treatments of the Styles of the Imperial Examinations: Zhuangyuan's Policy and Eight-Legged Essays -- Seven-Character Regulated Verse Was Favoured, While Lyrics Were Largely Excluded -- Ming Zhuangyuan Literature from the Perspective of Literary History -- 5 Writing Styles of the Imperial Examinations and Ming Society. |