Academic History of China: Recent 300 Years
Introduction
This work of Liang Qichao presents an exceptionally detailed impression of the major currents and figures in the revolutionary three hundred years of Chinese intellectual society (1623—1923). The book first deals with the interactions between the scholarship and politics, clearly showing their interlocking nature in the Confucian society. It then elaborates on the transition of academic focus from the abstract, metaphysical, and meditative discourses prevailing in the preceding Song and Ming periods to textual research on the real ancient works and the scholarship of other practical areas in the Qing dynasty. Its elaboration is carried out by introducing the life trajectories and academic pursuits of outstanding intellectuals in respective areas. As for textual research, or known as kaozhengxue, the predominant trend in the Qing dynasty, a careful analysis of its sub-disciplines is further provided. Through this work, the rich cultural heritage and innovative studies of China‘s past were re-ordered and made accessible to modern scholars.
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1. Rebels and Pioneers
2. The Political Implications on Academic Transitions of the Qing Dynasty (Part One)
3. The Political Implications on Academic Transitions of the Qing Dynasty (Part Two)
4. The Political Implications on Academic Transitions of the Qing Dynasty (Part Three)
5. The Aftershocks and Modification of Yangming School — Huang Zongxi, Sun Qifeng, Li Yong and Li Fu, a Yuyao Scholar of Wangxue
6. The Establishment of Jingxue in the Qing Dynasty — Gu Tinglin, Yan Ruoqu, and others (Hu Wei and Wan Sida)
7. Two Unconventional Scholars — Wang Chuanshan and Zhu Shunshui
8. The Establishment of Historiography in the Early Qing Dynasty — Wan Jiye, Quan Xieshan, and Other Early Historians and Geographers
9. The Cheng-Zhu School and Its Adherents — Zhang Yangyuan, Lu Futing, Lu Jiashu, Wang Baitian, and Others
10. Practicalism and Pragmatism — Yan Xizhai, Li Shugu and Others (Wang Kunsheng, Cheng Mianzhuang, Yun Gaowen, Dai Zigao)
11. The Dawn of Scientific Researches — Wang Yinxu, Mei Dingjiu, Chen Zizhai and Others
12. Other Academics in the Early Qing Dynasty
13. Qing Scholars‘ Reviews of Former Studies (Part One) — Classical Confucianism, Philology and Phonology
14. Qing Scholars‘ Reviews of Former Studies (Part Two) — Collating and Annotating, Distinguishing and Recovering Ancient Books
15. Qing Scholars‘ Reviews of Former Studies (Part Three) — Historiography, Gazetteers, Geography, and Genealogical Records
16. Qing Scholars‘ Reviews of Former Studies (Part Four) — Calendrical and Mathematical Study and Other Sciences, and Musicology
Author(s) Information
Author: LIANG Qichao
Translators: RAN Shiyang, XIAO Hong, LU Wei
About the Translators:
RAN Shiyang is an associate professor in Sichuan International Studies University, China. He got his Doctor‘s Degree in Shandong University, China, in the year 2013, and was an Academic Visitor to Manchester University, the United Kingdom, from 2016 to 2017, a postdoctoral researcher to University of Macau, China, in 2018. He has been doing research on Translation Studies since 2005. He has compiled a book in China and has published more than 20 translated article and papers in China. His current focus is on the translation of legal text and Chinese thinkers.
XIAO Hong is an associate professor in Sichuan International Studies University, China. She got her Master‘s Degree in Chongqing Normal University, China, in the year 2007. She has been doing research on Morals and Values Education since 2004. She has co-compiled a book in China and has published more than 10 papers in China and out of China.
LU Wei presently is an associate professor in Jiangxi Normal University, China. He got his Doctor‘s Degree in Shandong University, China, in the year 2013, and was an Academic Visitor to the Centre for Intercultural Mediation, Durham University, the United Kingdom, from 2017 to 2018. He has been doing research on Translation Studies since 2002. He has translated and published three books in China. His recent works include Business Translation: A Practical Course published by Tsinghua University Press. Presently he is associate professor in Jiangxi Normal University, China.
