- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index
Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen
Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen
A Study in Intellectual Challenge and Response in Eighteenth-Century China
- Chapter:
- (p.85) 4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen
- Source:
- Chinese History and Culture
- Author(s):
Ying-shih Yü
, Josephine Chiu-Duke, Michael S. Duke- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This examination of the intellectual relationship between Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) throws light on the inner complexities as well as tensions in the academic community of eighteenth-century China. It shows that Dai’s influence on Zhang was much more profound and enduring than previously believed, that Zhang knew that Dai’s philology was seeking to understand the Confucian Dao, and that a true philosophical vision worthy of pursuit could only be built on solid philological grounds. The article also traces the origin of Zhang Xuecheng’s dictum that “the Six Classics are all history.’”
Keywords: Dai Zhen, Zhang Xuecheng, kaozheng, philology, yili, philosophy, dao wenxue, zun dexing, wenshi, jingxue
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index