| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 81 === The study of Chieh Hsi Shih are in four parts. Part One
focuses on his life story and his social life that, in turn,
shed a light of what he was. Roughly speaking, his circle of
friends and acquaintances in his social life are divided into
four categories: 1) those who had helped him; 2) those who had
had a deep-rooted friendship with him; 3) those whose
friendship status is pending further investigation; and 4)
those were from either the Buddhist or the Taoist sect. Part
Two deals with the political environment in the Yuan Dynasty
and his political point of view. In the history of China, the
political environment in the Yuan Dynasty was com- paratively
quite different, setting off a rather immense impact upon the
then scholars. To Chieh Hsi Shih, the close- ly associated
issues were of the political standing of the scholars and the
problem of the scholars whether to serve in the government or
to go into seclusion. In the political arena, Chieh Hsi Shih
had strongly advocated recommendation of the qualified for
government service. In addition, his vision of governing was
a clean government where corruption was totally eradicated.
Part Three expounds on the study of Chieh''''s ideology as
reflected respectively in Confucianism, pedagogy, and his-
tory. It has been found that Confucianism was the center of his
ideology. Confucianism had in fact exerted quite an influence
of what he did, be it in politics, history, peda- gogy, or
literature.
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