Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung. Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan und ihre Begegnung mit der Moderne.
by Felix Erdt
Date of Examination:2024-04-03
Date of issue:2024-12-05
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
Referee:Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
Referee:Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
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Abstract
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Modernity is underlined by a new notion of time, which can be described as linear and progressive. This notion of time marks and provokes the continuous breakup between the past, present and future, which may be defined as historical hiatus and serves as the ideology for socio-economic changes. With the new ways look on history, the question of the role and place of Confucianism and Chinese classics as well as their relationship with history is raised. The Chinese reception of the modern notion of time can be traced back as early as the late Qing era when New-Text scholars and Old-Text scholars debated on the nature of the classics and the relationship between Confucianism and history. Although the approaches of two schools— to consider the Confucian classics as a utopia or as a historical account of Chinese antique—were essentially different, their debate eventually led to decanonization and historization of the classics inthe iconoclastic writings of the May Fourth intellectuals such as Gu Jiegang (1893-198
Keywords: Chinese Classics; Sichuan; Historiography; Confucianism; Concepts of Modern History; Liu Xianxin; Meng Wentong; Li Yuancheng