A Study On A Treatise On The Latent Man By Wang Fu

Wang Fu, styled jiexin, was born in Linjing of Anding (current Zhenyuan county of Gansu province). He is a famous ideologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and is considered as the representative person of Social Criticism. He lived in privacy all his life, with 36 articles about the world life, animadverting on the evil of the age and discussing on people's living and thinking conditions left, and named them as A Treatise on the latent man. This book, together with Lun Heng by Wang Chong and Chang Yan by Zhongchang Tong, are regarded as the most influential academic works of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the study of A Treatise on the latent man has gradually formed an upsurge, a lot of monographs and papers which research in Wang Fu and A treatise on the latent man have been coming up. The research fields touch upon the life and thoughts of Wang Fu'the emendation and folklore of A Treatise on the latent man, which has achieved certain levels. Because of lacking historical data, there are all kinds of chaos and even erroneous viewpoints on Wang Fu's birth and death, as well as A Treatise on the latent man Writing circulation in academia, besides, the literature value of A Treatise on the latent man is less been researched.In view of this, basing on the previous studies, this paper strives to coordinate the Writing circulation of A Treatise on the latent man, put forward the author's view on the Wang Fu's life, dissertate the literature values and achievements, in order to make a deep comprehension on A Treatise on the latent man.Chapter I discusses Wang Fu's life and the Dynasty. This chapter has four parts: by summing up and analyzing the previous Annotations to educe the conclusion that Wang Fu was born in the end of emperor Zhang or the early of emperor He and died in the year 163 A.D.; Probe into Wang Fu's beggarliness life experience; summarize the Dynasty of Wang Fu come into the cockles of his heart from the sociality of Wang Fu.Chapter II is the writing origin of A Treatise on the latent man .The aim of this chapter is to verify the title of A Treatise on the latent man and arrive at the conclusion the writing time was after 141 A.D. The evaluation of past dynasties is at last. Chapter III is about the Edition of A Treatise on the latent man. This chapter is divided into two parts, that is successive versions of the spread and recorded edition, which summarize the edition briefly before the Song Dynasty and make a more detailed comb of the historical edition and trim situation of A Treatise on the latent man, and analyze some famous edition of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern time to find out the headstream,evaluate the merits.Chapter IV deals with the literature values of A Treatise on the latent man. This chapter tries to discover its value and significance with a new perspective, compare its content with the history to find out the oversight of history and realize the literature value of Qin and Han Dynasties history. Moreover, the dapper consecution,concise words,the clarity, accuracy and vividness enrich the content of the ancient literature, which take a certain position in the ancient history of the development of literature.Chapter V, Wang Fu's ideology. This chapter is to research the academic origins of Wang Fu's ideology on the basis of the Eastern Han Dynasty medium-term social background and Wang Fu's personal experience. Analyze his political, economic, educational, ethical and martial thinking to point out the relevance.Anyway, A Treatise on the latent man is a very important academic work, However, because it is a book long time ago, the book badly part-losed, which has caused great difficulty to research. The author try to probe into the A Treatise on the latent man's academic value and comments on this book by Philology horizon, in a bid to reveal its true colors.