"Gao Bing's search for such cultural ideals was very much rooted in the intellectual and political climate of the early Ming, consumed as it was, having displaced the Yuan dynasty , with the need to validate its claim to power. [The founding emperor's government] sponsored a number of other codifying projects as well, and eventually adopted Gao's version of Tang poetry as the officially sanctioned one.", from "The Chinese Poetic Canon and its Boundaries", Pauline Yu, in Boundaries in China, Reaktion Books, John Hay ed., 1994, p. 119 [1]
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2010 [2], p. 11.
