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| Title: | A study of Zhang Tai Yan's philology from the aspect of statecraft thought |
| Other Titles: | Zhang Taiyan jing shi si xiang xia yu yan wen zi de zhu zhang yu ying yong
章太炎經世思想下語言文字的主張與應用 |
| Authors: | Chan, Hok Yin (陳學然) |
| Department: | Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics |
| Degree: | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | City University of Hong Kong |
| Subjects: | Chinese philology. |
| Description: | vi, 561 leaves 30 cm.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 497-561)
CityU Call Number: CT3990.C4 C428 2008 |
| Type: | thesis |
| Abstract: | Statecraft thought is a very critical element in studying Zhang Tai Yan’s
academic thoughts. He once said to his students that to be an academic, one had to
bear in mind the equal importance of writing, academic studies and statecraft thought.
Zhang’s academic thoughts are developed from nationalism and nationalism was used
as his study framework. With a very strong passion for his country, he even lived for
studying how statecraft thought could save the nation by the spread of nationalism.
His chosen way was to get rid of Ching, uphold Han, resist Western aggression,
strengthen Nation Learning and correct the nation’s faultiness.
It could be said that the nation’s history had formed and helped to develop
Zhang’s nationalism. Zhang asserted that history was the way to nurture the
development of nationalism. Without history, nationalism would die off and become
lifeless. Attaching such a great importance to history, Zhang formed his statecraft
thought in ways that had documented Liu Jing (“Six Classics”) and he grouped
traditional Xiao Xue (Philology) or linguistics into the historic study scope.
In order to understand the influence of Zhang’s scholarship, this essay has
selected his philology assertion and practice as case studies and observed how his
academic thought brought into play the effect of his statecraft thought. This helps the
understanding of his ultimate academic concerns and the role he played in modern
academic development. In short, this essay studies Zhang’s statecraft thought and its
features not only from a macro point of view, but also from a micro point of view (i.e.
to look into his linguistics and its statecraft assertions). This helps in the observation
of how he made use of academia to spread statecraft practice. This essay also provides
evidence of Zhang’s strong affection for nationalism and history when studying his views on the late-Ching and early-Min revolution of scripts, and his studies of the
linguistics and script of writing. Zhang’s strong affection for nationalism and history
formed both positive and negative views of people and matters. The essay also
discusses some points about Zhang’s studies which have been overlooked today and it
probes into Zhang’s features of thought and their meaning in today’s world. |
| Online Catalog Link: | http://lib.cityu.edu.hk/record=b2268811 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2031/5245 |
| Appears in Collections: | CTL - Doctor of Philosophy
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