Title: The Implication and Application of Zeng Guofan’s Idea of "Ordering the World through the Li Learning"
Abstract: Zeng Guofan’s construction of the tradition of the Li Learning demonstrates his efforts to integrating philology with Neo-Confucian moral philosophy and the study of Confucian classics with the study of history. It shows not only his devotion to traditional scholarship but also his attentiveness to current political and cultural crises. In suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, Zeng put into practices his idea of ordering the world with the Li Learning. Transition to modern world through the channel provided by the Li Learning, if successful, would have made impossible the totalistic anti-traditionalism in the May Fourth era.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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