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Study On Zhang Boxing-A Famous Official Expert In Neo-Confucianism In The Early Qing Dynasty

Posted on:2011-09-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F D ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305477512Subject:History of Ancient China
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The social fierce turbulence caused during the replacement of late Ming dynasty by the early Qing dynasty, Manchus conquered the mainland of China and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty which all makes the social ideology tooks place the significant change. Because of the emptiness and the uselessness of "Wang Xue", the majority of the late Ming and early Qing literati were violently attacked and criticized it. The Neo-Confucianism was the revival again by the strongly praises of the early Qing rulers. Besides the traditional Neo-Confucianism, the anti-Confucianism and the development of pragmatic ideas inject new blood to ideological circles.Zhang Boxing (1651-1725) was a famous official during Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, he was also a great philosophy ideologist. The social ideology and academic atmosphere of the early Qing dynasty have great shaping effect on Zhang Boxing. He studied the Neo-Confucianism, and with the aim of promoting the Neo-Confucianism as his duty. He spared no effort to spread Neo-Confucianism, to criticize Lu and Wang'thought, and to against the Buddhism and Daoist ideology. He not only believes in Neo-Confucianism, but he also puts this thinking apply in"for study, for policy and the rules for being human". In the aspect of"for study", Zhang Boxing called on people to build large amounts of college, actively spread the Neo-Confucianism, excluded other academic,and collected works of wise men wherever he went. In the aspect of"for policy", he concerned the river serivice and common people; he also paid attention to local stable. He received many accolades form the emperor Kangxi for his hard working. In the aspect of"the rules for being human", he is free of corruption and he was not afraid of power. Zhang Boxing is not only a famous philosophor of Neo-Confucianism, but he also is a respect practitioner of Neo-Confucianism.The thesis can be divided into five parts: the first part is the Introduction. In this part the author reviews the researches on Zhang Boxing by other scholars, and the author makes classification of the previous studies.and in this part the author also presents the research methods, the innovations and the significance of this research. In the second part, the writer analyzes the political situation of the late Ming and early Qing' and the academic background, and the writer displays the external environment when Zhang Boxing's thought formed. In the third part, the writer elaborates Zhang Boxing's life story from two apects-Zhang Bo xing dredged rivers with his heart and official incorruptible moral behavior of Zhang Boxing. In the fourth part, the writer describes the purpose and the research methord of Zhang Boxing propagated Neo-Confucianism. Part five is the key part of the full text article, in this part the writer emphasizes on the analysis of Neo-Confucianism of Zhang Boxing, and during the analysis, the writer connects the contents of Neo-Confucianism with Zhang Boxing's personal practice. The last part is the Conclusion. The writer gives a systematic and comprehensive description of Zhang Boxing. Zhang Boxing's everyday behavior is a concrete manifestation of his ideas. Through narrating the story of Zhang Boxing, and analyzing his major works of Neo-Confucianism, it is beneficial for deep research of Zhang Boxing, in order of the Bo-line to make an objective summary of the evaluation and understanding of the full recognition of his due political and academic status. Individual behavior, the general dominated by their personal ideology, and the formation of personal ideology, is bound to influence by the social environment, which is made of Zhang, an understanding of the individual.
Keywords/Search Tags:The late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhang Boxing, Neo-Confucianism, Dissemination
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