Chinese Academic History in the Past Three Centuries

Author: Liang Qichao
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Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This lecture series aims to explain the major trends of academic changes during the Qing Dynasty and the value of its contributions to culture. The twenty-plus years of late Ming period already set the precedent for Qing studies. The following decade in the period can also be considered the end and transformation of Qing studies. Broadly speaking, it can also be described as the history of Chinese academia in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. — Liang Qichao
This book provides an in-depth study of the history of Chinese academia in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, elucidating the different stages of academic development and the reasons for their transformations. Analyzing the Qing Dynasty's schools, representative figures, and typical works from philosophical and intellectual perspectives, it offers numerous new insights and is widely recognized as an unprecedented masterpiece. A History of Modern Three Centuries of Chinese Academia, likely written between 1923 and the spring of 1925, was originally a lecture series by Liang Qichao while teaching at institutions such as Tsinghua University and Nankai University.
In this sixteen-lecture, over 200,000-word series, the author comprehensively examines three centuries of academic changes, the outlines of dozens of disciplines, hundreds of specialized treatises, and hundreds of Confucian scholars. The content is presented with both breadth and depth, covering both the grand and the minute, analyzing systematically yet explicating clearly. Truly a representative work of Liang Qichao's academic writings.