Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays

Selections

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Confucianism, History, Asian, China, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays by Yanwu Gu, Columbia University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Yanwu Gu ISBN: 9780231542678
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: November 8, 2016
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Yanwu Gu
ISBN: 9780231542678
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: November 8, 2016
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an introduction explaining the personal and political dimensions of the scholar's work.

Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773–819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an introduction explaining the personal and political dimensions of the scholar's work.

Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773–819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.

More books from Columbia University Press

Cover of the book The Freedom Schools by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Action, Art, History by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Reimagining the Sacred by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book The Art of Philosophy by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Randall Jarrell and His Age by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book The Politics of Passion by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Love Letters from Golok by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book When the State Winks by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book My South Seas Sleeping Beauty by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Theory of Identities by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Truth and the Past by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Liquid Metal by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book Reality TV by Yanwu Gu
Cover of the book The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History by Yanwu Gu
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy