Liu Zhiji: A Biography

Author: Xu Lingyun
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts. The first part narrates the life of Liu Zhiji, introducing his era, family background, life activities, and academic achievements, with a focus on his motivation, conditions, process, and achievements in writing Shitong. The second part comments on Liu Zhiji's thought, discussing his academic thought origins, political and ethical thought, historical perspective and methodology, the conception of Shitong, theories on historical trends and styles, the structure of national histories, the theory of historical sources, the theory of historical writing, the theory of the historian's cultivation, and its historical impact. It is systematic and comprehensive, with frequent new insights. At the end of the book is a chronology.