Books on Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi, great Confucian scholars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. • Gu Yanwu Volume 10 of Selected Chinese Historical Figures, Hakuteisha, by Susumu Inoue Minor soiling on the edges and bottom. • Huang Zongxi Chinese Biographical Series, 2nd Period, Volume 9, Shin Jinbutsu Orai-sha Supervised by Ichisada Miyazaki, written by Kazuko Ono Box has yellowing, fading, scuffing, and stains. The main body of the book has slight age-related yellowing. • Gu Yanwu: A Confucian scholar from the late Ming dynasty to the early Qing dynasty in China. He participated in the anti-Qing movement when the Ming dynasty fell. Alongside his studies of classics and history, he advocated for practical learning (経世致用, keisei chiyo) for the benefit of society. He is one of the founders of the Qing dynasty's evidential research (考証学, kōshōgaku). Like Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi (Funzan), who are known as the Three Great Masters of the early Qing, his involvement in the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming movement is reflected in his scholarship, which takes on the character of criticism of real society. • Huang Zongxi: A Confucian scholar of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in China. He participated in the anti-Qing movement when the Ming dynasty fell, but later retreated to his hometown and devoted himself to scholarship. He advocated for empirical thought from the perspective of the right wing of the School of Mind (陽明学, Yōmeigaku), and was called the founder of evidential research. His "Mingyi Daifang Lu" (明夷待訪録) was a reform proposal for the actual political system, stated within the framework of Confucianism, and criticized autocratic politics without completely denying the monarchy. However, due to his innovative ideas at the time and his past involvement in the anti-Qing movement, he was persecuted, and his works such as "Mingyi Daifang Lu" were banned by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. In the late Qing dynasty, "Mingyi Daifang Lu" was used by the revolutionaries as propaganda for revolutionary thought and as a classic of democracy, and Huang Zongxi came to be called the "Rousseau of China." Afterwards, this book was often quoted in student movements such as the May Fourth Movement in the Republic of China. Rousseau, The Social Contract, the Zhejiang School, the Donglin Party, the Fuxue Society, Wei Zhongxian, Nurhaci, Li Zicheng, Wang Fuzhi, the Shunzhi Emperor, Dorgon, the Kangxi Emperor, the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Qing dynasty evidential research, philosophy, Confucianism, Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, the School of Mind. ↓ Also on sale ↓ #papiChineseHistory #papiHistory