| dc.description.abstract | Hanxue Shichengji is the conclusion for Hanxue during the reign of Emperor Jiaqing, who was the seventh emperor of Qing Dynasty. The purpose of this master thesis is to understand the change and development of Hanxue since the reign of Emperor Jiaqing by discussing three sequels of Hanxue Shichengji, Hanxue Shicheng Xuji, Jingxue Mingruji, and Jingxue BocaiIu. Although three authors do not intend to act their books as sequels, the public still consider them to be sequels to Hanxue Shichengji. It is partly because the articles of all three books are mainly from Hanxue scholars, who are born after Jiang Fan and are involved in the discussion of the sequel to Hanxue Shichengji. As a consequence, this thesis takes these three books as sequels, and focuses on the development of Hanxue after Hanxue Shichengji. In the beginning, the society, politics, and economic problems since the reign of Emperor Jiaqing are generally introduced. Further, the biography and life of the authors, and the claim and characteristics of the three books are discussed. At last, a comparison is made to know how the three books redefine the Hanxue, react to the contemporary problems, and then help the development of the Hanxue. After this research, we know that, after the reign of Jiaqing, scholars of Hanxue are with more tolerant opinions regarding the dispute between Hanxue and Songxue. The Sequels have included several academic works of Hanxue scholars, with a view to combing Hanxue in theory and practice, through the discussion of their words and deeds. At last, the disadvantages of Hanxue can be compensated.
Hanxue Shicheng Xuji is written by ZHAO ZHI-QIAN, and its genre of writing is the same as Hanxue Shichengji. The scholars of this book are not written with detail whose works can’t be included on Hanxue Shichengji. This book is named Hanxue to distinguish Songxue. Therefore, this book extracts the content of the articles of different scholars, with an evaluation on their expertise and contribution regarding Hanxue. This book is also named Shicheng to record these scholars’ teachers, friends, and students, which can help clarify the inheritance and development of Hanxue. Unfortunately, this book is incomplete and unpublished. Although the biographies of this book, written with the first-hand information, are precious, they are not valued by the academia.
The author of Jingxue Mingruji is ZHANG XING-JIAN, and its type of literature is memoirs, including works of famous people from GU YAN-WU to CHEN HUAN, which focus on their life and works of Confucian classics. This book is not just the continuation of Hanxue Shichengji, so it is also called Jingxue. We hope to understand the development of Hanxue in Qing Dynasty by recording the biographies of famous scholars. Although the author wants to respond to the criticism of Hanxue through Jingxue, this book doesn’t include Songxue scholars. Moreover, biographies are too brief to influence the academia, despite being published twice.
The author of Jingxue BocaiIu is GUI WEN-CAN, the type of literature is notes. The works of the Hanxue scholars after Qianlong are widely included, and areas such as Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan and other areas are especially focused.
Although these scholars are not famous to people, they insist on studying Hanxue. This book is named Jingxue to respond to criticism of Hanxue, so authors of this book include Hanxue and Songxue. Also, Hanxue scholars are not only Guwen in Western Han, but also Jinwen in Eastern Han.He believes this method can understand the dispute between Hanxue and Songxue.This book also emphasizes the contribution to solving social problems made by scholars, in which we can know what GUI WEN-CAN wants to use with academic aims.
Although the three books all focus on recording Hanxue scholars as their goals, their authors are different in terms of birthplace, teachers, studies, and friends.
But, three authors are acquainted with each other, and went through the reign of Daoguang, Xianfeng , Tongzhi, and Guangxu, so they write biography in order to keep record of their own experience and emotions. We can go through their books and know the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom influences their lives greatly. So they want to solve the social problems urgently, and especially emphasize practical use. Three books revise the concept that, for the academia, Hanxue is difficult to be used practically, which remains unknown after Jiaqing. They record Hanxue scholars revise the fragment and defect of Hanxue by combining Hanxue and Songxue, and emphasize the morality. At the same time, they broaden the research scope to combine Confucian classics of Guwen in Western Han with Western thought. By doing so, Hanxue scholars are able to contact every study widely with solid academic basic, and confirm the foundation of practical use. Therefore, these scholars can encounter the challenges on contemporary issues, which are developed until the end of Qing Dynasty.
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