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- Title
Huang Zongxi's Reconstruction of the Tai Zhou School's Historical Image: A Case Study of Textual Problems in the Biography of Yan Jun in Mingru Xuean.
- Authors
Yong Liu
- Abstract
Used as an indispensable sourcebook for the study of Ming Confucianism and the intellectual history of the Ming dynasty, Mingru Xuean ..., Case Biographies of Ming Confucians) by Huang Zongxi... (1610-1695) is not invariably authentic. To illustrate this, the present paper focuses on textual problems in the biography of Yan Jun... (1504-1596). Huang Zongxi's selective account of the Tai Zhou School... in Mingru Xuean effectively reformed its image. Consequently, most researchers take Huang's portrayal for granted and do not probe into the validity of the information presented. In this paper, a thorough textual study of the content of Yan Jun's biography is conducted, along with analysis of the reference sources which Huang Zongxi used for this biography. Based on many original historical documents, this paper shows how the original texts were misrepresented, distorted, and even falsified. Furthermore, this paper discusses Huang Zongxi's motivations for deviating from historical facts. While Huang Zongxi was compiling Mingru Xuean, much criticism prevailed against the Wang Yangming School...and the Tai Zhou School. As a result, Huang's biography of Yan Jun was calculated in content, with a desire to thereby defend the Tai Zhou School.
- Subjects
CHINA; MING dynasty, China, 1368-1644; CONFUCIANISM -- History; INTELLECTUAL history; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); MINGRU Xuean (Book); HUANG, Zongxi, 1610-1695; YAN Jun
- Publication
Chinese Studies / Hanxue Yanjiu, 2008, Vol 26, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0254-4466
- Publication type
Article