Title: The Historiographers' History Understanding of the National Archives of Ming Dynasty and the Feature of the History Thought in the Early Period of Qing Dynasty
Abstract:The history understanding put forward by the historiographers of the national archives of Ming dynasty affected the developing feature and trend of the history science of the early period of Qing dyna...The history understanding put forward by the historiographers of the national archives of Ming dynasty affected the developing feature and trend of the history science of the early period of Qing dynasty. The history style of study started to change from the meretricious one in Ming dynasty to valuing management of affairs and applications and the reality and development. The action of the history scientist's ‘conscience’ on the truth of history works was valued, which showed the influence of the disposition doctrine on the compiling history works, enriched the 'scheme theory' of the traditional history, as well as acted on the 'history virtue theory' held by Zhang Xuecheng. That the style idea of history works as 'basing on the proper time and changing according to the time' was put forward and the theory of coordination and connection of the internal part of the biography style history works was valued broke the thought of 'sticking to the style' held by Liu Zhiji. In the understanding of the value of real records and non-formal history works was full of dialectical color. The principles of studying the value of the history materials they put forward had much significance for the methodology of historical criticism. Such history understandings were full of the sentiments of the 'adherents of the former dynasty', showed the criticizing edge, as well as apparently stamped the official brand.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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