The Personal Path to History: Miscellaneous Essays on the History of Chinese Academic Thought

Author: Zhang Sanxi
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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is one of the "Humanities Series of Hainan University." It presents the personal journey of the author in traversing the history of Chinese academic thought over the past decade. The book is divided into five parts.
1. Introducing the study of the "Records of the Grand Historian" from the perspective of biographical excerpts, uncovering potential issues within the text itself.
2. Explaining the connotation of the Wei-Jin style and organizing the "Records of the Three Kingdoms": Taking Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun as case studies, it explores poetic issues such as "dwelling poetically."
3. Including the preface to the author's master's thesis "Collected Examples of Song Poetry and Annotations" and the introduction to the doctoral thesis "The Critique of Critical History": Collecting previously unpublished annotated drafts of "The Compendium of Historical Criticism" by Ji Yun and Yang Shoujing.
4. Presenting the author's own insights.
5. Some theoretical reflections: Chinese language philosophy, issues of national studies, the relationship between academic development and academic institutions, and the construction of epistemological morphology.