Study Of Wang Chang's Literary Philology

Wangchang(1725A.D.~1806A.D.) was a famous scholar of Qing Dynasty, born in former Qingpu County of Jiangsu Province, i.e. present Shanghai. He carried out researches on whatever he was learning and left a fairly abundant writings for later generations. He earned national fame but did not establish his own faction. Expert in the Science of Song and Ming Dynasty and Epigraphy Textual Research, he worked out 160-volume 'Cuibian on Epigraphy'. As one of Seven Scholars in Wuzhong area, he was good at poems, Ci and anient prose and wrote 68-volume 'Chunrongtang Collection'. In literary philology, Wang made the selections like 'Qingpu Poetic Memoir', 'Huhai Memoir', 'Huhai Essay Memoir', 'Summary of Ming Ci' and 'Summary of Qing Ci' etc, which brought effect to a certain extent in literary history. On top of it, the selections are of very high philological value.Up to the present, there has not been any special work devoted to studying Wang's academic achievements of all kinds. Based on the studies on Wang's achievements of literary philology, the article briefly surveys the selections by Wang, mainly analyzes the stylistic characters, the similarities, differences and innovations compared with the existing selections of the same sort, the influences on later selections, and also deeply probes into the literary ideas and opinions reflected from the selections and then uncovers their reference values in philology. In conclusion, the article aims to show Wang's achievements, status and influences in literary philology.