The Study On The Historiography Thought Of The Chorography Of Japan

The Chorography of Japan is the first systematic classics masterpiece of recording foreign contemporary history in modern times of china, which was praised as "Church for" by contemporaries. The Author is Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), was a well-known politician diplomat historian and poet in late Qing Dynasty. He was appointed as embassy Counselor of Japan to went to Japan with the first minister of staying Japan in 1877. That time was after Meiji restoration, prosperity of business, the community has made great progress. Huang Zunxian witnessed the change, awared keenly Japan's "change after the West, throw off old and chose the new" was a road to strong that was worthiness referenced by us. So, he started studying the history of Japan, and wrote The Chorography of Japan in 1887.The Chorography of Japan is a Chronicle entire history. Totaled 40 volumes,50 million words in whole Book Frontispice attached to the "The Chronology of Middle East ", which is followed with 12 categories, they are "National Unification ", "Chi's neighbors," "astronomical annals" "Geography," "officialdom" "Food and Money," "Soldier", "Criminal Law ", "Academic "" Etiquette "," property ","arts and crafts" and so on. Record the evolvement course of the various types of system of 2,500 years of the history of Japan, that from the first year of the Shenwu to 14-year of the Meiji. The principle of writing of "to write detailed as long as it is about the west, in order to service the reality" runs through the book, and emphases on the achievements of the Meiji Restoratio. The author took the historical viewpoint of Darwinism in the purpose of writing to serve lives, commented in the form of "unofficial history surname say" and small notes in order to elucidate countrymen to learn from Japan. This book not only deepened the understanding of the Chinese people toward Japan, provides a reform textbook to China's reformers, but also spreaded world awareness timely, opened up the window of studying west. Today is still the most valuable works to study the history of Japan. Therefore, studying this book, have great significance to understanding and evaluation the contribution of Huang Zunxian on the history of modern historyThe former scholars have done a lot in writing motivation, writing process, content characteristics, sources of thought, reform, meaning and so on. But they less deal with its historiography thought. This text studies The Chorography of Japan from the perspective of history, emphases on its historiography thought.This article is divided into four parts:First, the life and times of Huang Zunxian. It introduces Huang's extraordinary life and great performance from the time, extraction, personal experience and academic achievements.Second, the content and structure of The Chorography of Japan. It is divided into 13 categories to summarize the characteristics of the content. And it will analyze the structural features in the perspective of his inheritance and development to the Chronicle.Third, the historiography thought of The Chorography of Japan. It analyses from five aspects, that is, the historical viewpoint to conclude his ideas to evolution, the historiography thought of writing to serve lives, the historiography thought of patriotisms, recordation detailed to the current, recordation simple to the ancient, recordation detailed to the vicinity, recordation simple to the forage, seeking truth from facts, and writing down the truth.Fourth, the historical value and evaluation of The Chorography of Japan. It shows the social value through the evaluation to this book, shows its historical value in three aspects:summarizing Meiji reform timely, introducing advanced ideas from the west and spreading world consciousness. And it gives a simple evaluation to Huang Zunxian depending on this book.