Guwen Guanzhi  Guwen Guanzhi () is an anthology of essays written in literary Chinese. It was first published during the Qing dynasty in 1695. It comprises more than two hundred works from the Warring States period to the Ming dynasty. Today the anthology (in whole but mostly in part) is widely used as required or supplementary reading material of literary Chinese in middle-schools in the Greater China Region, including the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. "Guwen Guanzhi" has a total of 221 texts. The texts are arranged by period, and originally the book consisted of 12 fascicles ("juan", 卷). The composition is as follows:  Most of the texts are prose written in the "ancient style" which "guwen" (古文) refers to. The selection includes also three (or four) pieces written in ”parallel prose” (usually not regarded as "guwen"), as well as three "ci" and four "fu" prose poems. "Guwen Guanzhi" was first and foremost produced as a practical study aid. The compilers avoided overly difficult texts and made their explanations as clear and concise as possible. In its own time, "Guwen Guanzhi's" main assets were its ideal size (in terms of number and length of the selected texts), the relative comprehensiveness of its selection, lack of an overly moralistic or tendentious approach, and good notes and comments. The same features have helped the anthology survive through centuries. "Guwen Guanzhi" was compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou, who at the time of the publication were working as teachers in a private village school in Shaoxing. Very little is known of Wu Chucai (given name Wu Chengquan 吳乘權, sobriquet Chucai, 楚才, 1655–1719), except that he was originally from Shaoxing and never became part of the established literati. Wu Diaohou (given name Wu Dazhi 吳大職, courtesy name Diaohou, 調侯) was his younger nephew. Wu Chucai started working on the anthology in 1678 in Fujian where he had travelled to take on duties as a private secretary for his uncle, high imperial official Wu Xingzuo (吳興祚, 1632–97).