The Origin of Modern Guoxue(1891-1921): On Some Relevant Case

• Main Authors: NG, KIM CHEW, 黃錦樹
• Other Authors: Liu Jen-peng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23460460405866122371

博士 === 國立清華大學 === 中國文學系 === 86 === This dissertation sets outs to explore the rise, origin and essence of the special formation which is called "Guoxue"( National scholarship), including its formation under the condition at the ending time of Ch''ingdynasty, the rise of China''s modernization and its modern fate. To investigate how the why the National scholarship is considered, I have to go through the following problems which happened in late Ch''ing, such as the ending of Qingxue, national-essence, the disputes of chin-ku-wen, the reconstruction of intellectual historyof the classical antiquity, and so on. Thus, some typical cases are chosen, such as Kang Youwei, Zhang Taiyan, Liu Shipei, Wang Kuowei, around their academic career, scholarship and life， because they all were the masters of traditional academic by that time, and they used all the traditional and western sources with their own patterns and forms to articulate Guoxue as possible as the could. From the point of view f literary criticism, the special forms and patter of their own academic could be seen as a kind of modernity of the style of Guoxue. It was treated as a kind of vital existence, with the name such as national spirit, national mind, ideal, and actually it was national essence. Focusing on the scholarship itself, the main problem is, how and why the nation the rules of intellectual of the traditional academic were challenged or shaken, and under what kind of condition of possibility of knowledge the were rebuilt. The second important problem is, how and why the area of Guoxue became actualized, and reduced to some fundamental categories, such as literature, history and philosophy. After the May-fourth cultural revolution, scientism became the main stream of thought, all of them were dominated under uhe common rules of the science of history. By that time, the objectification of the Guoxue exceeded its own limit, and was treated as a kind of dead body. At the same time, its name changed too, from Guoxue to Guokuxue (the scholarship of the national past). Namely, the whole problems changed, and it seems that the national scholarship ended in its rising.