Chinese Economic History

Author: Xu Daoxun
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book is one of the "Special History Series." Since the mid-Western Han Dynasty, Confucian classics have been interpreted through the ideological doctrine of Confucianism. It narrates the definitions of the concepts of "classic" and "Confucian classics studies"; the similarities and differences between Confucian classics studies and Confucianism; the origins and compilation of Confucian classics studies; the relationship between classics and Confucian schools; the origins and early transmission of Confucian classics studies; the establishment of the era of Confucian classics studies; the scope of classics and the gradual expansion process; the role of Confucian classics studies in China's feudal era and the reasons why feudal rulers promoted Confucian classics studies; the evolution of Confucian classics studies and the end of the era of Confucian classics studies; the various systems and schools of Confucian classics studies that have appeared in history (specifically described from the four systems of Han studies, Song studies, Qing studies, and modern studies); the authors, composition dates, main contents, structural chapters, authenticity, and controversial issues of classics (including the Thirteen Classics and the Four Books); various methods and conventions in the study of classics (specifically described and introduced from oral interpretation of classics, "master's method" and "family method," textual analysis, commentaries, philosophical interpretation, and textual research); a brief overview of the achievements of scholars in the study of Confucian classics; the influence of Confucian classics studies on traditional Chinese culture; and an overview of the study of the history of Confucian classics studies, etc.