Title: Eason and Enlightenment: Towards the Study of Confucian Classics
Abstract:The ancient Chinese classics studies, which evolved from Western-Han's Jin-Wen to Eastern-Han's GuWen, Wei-Jin's WangXue, annotational studies in Six-Dynasty Period, Song-Ming's rationalism and to Qin...The ancient Chinese classics studies, which evolved from Western-Han's Jin-Wen to Eastern-Han's GuWen, Wei-Jin's WangXue, annotational studies in Six-Dynasty Period, Song-Ming's rationalism and to Qing's textual studies, underwent four vibrating developments. The main reasons lie in the periodic variations of social and cultural needs, and the contradiction between implementing social values of Confucian and pursuing academic taste of Confucian classics, as well as the contextual traits of classics, especially the multi-meanings of Chinese language and characters. All of above demonstrates that we should pay more concerns in society and down-to-earth to improve our Sinology studies in the 21th century.Read More
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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