An Academic History of China's Han Dynasty: Brilliant Academic Achievements

ISBN-13: 9789819968343 / Angielski

Tieji Xiong; Yinbo Li

Spis treści

1. Development of Exegeses and Formation of Chinese Hermeneutics.- Pre-Qin Philosophers Study and Han Philosophers.- Establishment of Basic Forms of Ancient Chinese Historiography.- Most Advanced Astronomy and Geography in the World.- Deep-rooted Agronomy and Hydraulics.-Traditional Chinese Medicine: Both Materialistic and Dialectic.

O autorze

Prof. Xiong Tieji (熊铁基, 1933- )

received his B.A. in history from Central China Normal University (CCNU) in 1956 and his M.A. in history from Eastern China Normal University (ECNU) in 1958. He has been teaching and researching Qin & Han history for over 6 decades and is now a professor emeritus at the School of History and Culture, Central China Normal University (CCNU), Wuhan, P. R. China. He is a renowned historian in the history of the Qin & Han Dynasties, as well as a renowned expert in Daoism Studies, acting as adviser at the Chinese Association of Qin & Han History Studies. He has published many works on the culture, institution and thoughts of the Qin & Han period, which are highly valued and have great influence. His main works include The Official Institutions History of Qin & Han Dynasties (1984), The Military Institutions History of Qin & Han Dynasties (1990), The Cultural History of Han & Tang Dynasties (1993), Chinese History of Studies on Laozi (1995), The Cultural Records of Qin & Han Dynasties (1998), The Neo-Daoism of Qin & Han Dynasties (2001), Chinese History of Studies on Zhuangzi (2003), The Cultural History of Qin & Han Dynasties (2007), An Academic History of the Han Dynasty (2013), etc. He has won many academic awards, including the second prize of the “Humanities & Social Sciences Achievement Awards from Ministry of Education, P. R. China” in 1998 for his Chinese History of Studies on Laozi (1995) and the third prize of the same title in 2006 for his Chinese History of Studies on Zhuangzi (2003).

Prof. Li Yinbo (李银波，1968-)

received his BA in history from Central China Normal University (CCNU) in 1991, his MA in history in 1994 and his Ph.D. in history in 2010, both from Wuhan University. He was a visiting scholar at Mainz University in Germany in 2003-2004 and at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA in 2007-2008. He is now a professor of journalism and communication at the School of Law, Humanities & Sociology, Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), Wuhan, P. R. China. His main fields of study include Western media and culture, communication history, and intercultural communication. He is a council member of the “Chinese Association for Studies on German History” and “Chinese Association for Studies on Comparative Literature and Intercultural Communication”. His main works include A Study on the Press Reconstruction in the German West-zone after World War II (2012), History of American Television (2012), A Study on International Dissemination of Ethical Literary Criticism (2023), etc.

 

Blurb

This book examines the academic legacy of the Han dynasty. It explicates the line between the explaining of a classical text (训诂) and the study of classical texts and their interpretation (训诂学). The study of hermeneutics was developed already, including the Chinese specific figure, meaning, sound, interpretation, and rites and systems.

It details analyses of the Confucian School, Daoist School, Yin-Yang School, Legalist School, Terminologist School, Mohist School, Political Strategist School, Syncretist School, Agriculturalist School, and Literalist School.

Among important classical works of the Han Dynasty examined throughout the book Shiji, Hanshu and Hanji are deeply analysed. Referring to various works during the Earlier and Later Han Dynasty, the author details categories of historiographical writing, i.e., the category of classical, official, and miscellaneous history, and different branches of analysis and interpretation.

The book expatiates chapters on astronomy, mathematics, geography, agriculture, and medicine. Among these are the three theories on sky, the mathematics, map drawing, ox-plowing, an agricultural treatise, water project examinations, and the process of knowledge transfer and advancement in medicine during the Han Dynasty.