Title: LOOKING TO WANG SHIZHEN: HU YINGLIN (1551–1602) AND LATE-MING ALTERNATIVES TO NEO-CONFUCIAN LEARNING
Abstract: Hu Yinglin <inline-graphic href="splitsection5_in1.tif"/> (1551–1602), from Lanxi <inline-graphic href="splitsection5_in2.tif"/> county in Jinhua <inline-graphic href="splitsection5_in3.tif"/> <inline-graphic href="splitsection5_in4.tif"/> prefecture, gained a reputation in his own lifetime as a literary man and erudite scholar. Hu is of interest in his own right—for a series of rather bibliographic studies of literature and thought—but here I shall ask what his case can tell us about how some intellectuals responded to intellectual uncertainty in the late sixteenth century. Hu was a protégé of Wang Shizhen (1526–1590). I assume that Hu saw that his own interests and questions made Wang a fitting patron and that Wang thought Hu's talents and inclinations fell within the constellation of his own interests. Although this study is centered on Hu Yinglin, it also tells us something about what Wang Shizhen could signify.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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