Title: Selections of the Speech on "General History" by Mr. Zhang Zhenpei
Abstract: By commenting on the man and the world, the present paper analyzes the life of Liu Zhiji in three stages. It holds that there is always tension between the super-value ideas and the realistic social situation. This is an important factor that determines Liu Zhiji's political attitude. It is also a key point to understand his academic thought. In addition, he places the book in the development of Chinese traditional history, expounding Liu Zhiji's theory on history systematically and completely in terms of targets, method, the main part of history, knowledge, and the like. It holds that the book, General History, has not only provided new ideas for continuous part of the history after the Tang Dynasty, especially in theory, but also provided an approach to methodology that is significant for post-historians to re-evaluate history.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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