Chronological Table of Confucianism in the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties

Author: [Japanese] Tomonori Iwakuni
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The four dynasties of Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing were the period when Neo-Confucianism in China took on a new form—Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming emerged, developed, and matured. The Japanese scholar Tomonori Iwakuni wrote this book in Chinese, starting from the first year of Emperor Renzong of Song (1033), the year of the birth of the great synthesizer of Neo-Confucianism, Cheng Hao, and ending in 1912 with the founding of the Confucian Association. The entire book is structured with chronology (first listing the Chinese calendar, followed by the Gregorian calendar and Japanese era names) as the vertical axis and the birth and death dates, publication of works, and major academic activities of important scholars of Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming as the horizontal axis, forming a framework of the development of Neo-Confucianism over more than 870 years in the four dynasties. It includes insightful and unique perspectives on Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming. It is an invaluable research tool for the history of academic thought in the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.