The Research Of Textology Scholars' Characteristics Of Study In The Late Qing Dynasty

In late Qing dynasty,the textology have changed when compared with before.The textology developed into a national academic,and the research scopes were expanded.The new research fields and academic characteristics have emerged.In order to study the characteristics of the textual research scholars in late Qing dynasty,we must learn the origin of the development of textology and the inner relation of textology between in late Qing dynasty and early Qing dynasty.The textual research scholars in late Qing dynasty inherited and developed the research content of the textology during the Qianjia Period through learning from their teachers and inheriting from their family.The academic characteristics of the textology in the Qianjia Period are “seeking truth from facts”?“sectarianism”.Based on these characteristics,the textual research scholars in late Qing dynasty formed new characteristics.These new characteristics of research mainly reflected in the research purpose,research methods and research focus.This is their response to the internal and external conditions of the late Qing dynasty and the adjustment to western culture.The research purposes of Textology scholar in the Late Qing Dynasty are different from Qian-jia school.They shake off the pursuit of history truth and call for a renewal of pragmatism of Gu Yanwu and introduce the New Text into politics,express and succumb to their thought of Practical Statecraft.They initiated the research of The New Text which made the basis for later scholars to engage in political reform.Gong Zizhen and Wei Yuan is the backbone of the development of Confucian classics,they advocate political reform,putting forward the "surgery by surgery" thinking for learning the fundamental purpose of the world,promoting the development of Confucian classics.KANG You-wei combines Western evolutionism,democracy,constitutionalism into modern classics and combines it with politics directly,which provide theoreticalsupport for the reform of the Reform Movement of 1898 and realized the transformation of The New Text in the study of Confucian classics.In research methods,the Textology scholar in the Late Qing Dynasty combined the research methods with the Western's,making their research results have a higher academic and practical value.At the same time,they began to pay attention to the meaning of the neo-confucianism,to integrate with the textual research and achieve the academic update with the invasion of the Western imperialist powers,Archaeologists saw the western power,by contrast,the Chinese Traditional Academic is far unable to apply the current society,so they appealed to learn from powerful country and insist on the fusion of Chinese and western academic to resist the foreign and to be independent.In the focus of the textual research,the textual research scholars in late Qing dynasty have noticed that the special function of the revelation and reference of history are very important.So they applied textology which integrating Chinese and Western academic and compromising the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty to the study of history.Then they achieved the ultimate goal that academic guides the development of society.The focus of scholarship mainly includes two aspects;one aspect is the study of borderland history to seek border's peace.they through to research mountains and rivers landscape,geography,humanities,history and economic of northwest,northeast and other places to look for consolidating frontier defense measures,in order to frontier peace.Due to the deepening of problem,Archaeologists began to pay much attention to research the historio-geographical studies of the Sino-Russian frontiers and the Russian history,to provide academic reference for fighting Russia.Another aspect is researching scope of history in order to against the enemy,they through to research the advanced western civilization,to help China out of the crisis.The new characteristics of textual research scholars in late Qing dynasty not only promote the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty continue to enhance the consciousness of practicality,broaden their horizons,breaking the portal view,but also promote the the modernization of research methods and the development of scientific and cultural knowledge.