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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays - Selections (Hardcover): Yanwu Gu

Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays - Selections (Hardcover)

Yanwu Gu; Translated by Ian Johnston

Series: Translations from the Asian Classics

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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.

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Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Release date: November 2016
Authors: Yanwu Gu
Translators: Ian Johnston
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17048-2
Languages: English
Subtitles: Chinese
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Confucianism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Confucianism
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LSN: 0-231-17048-3
Barcode: 9780231170482

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