Liang Qi-chao And The Development Of Chinese Literature Philology

Liang Qi-chao was one of the most important literature philologist in the 20^th century in China. His researches on literature philology obtained the great academic achievement that played a significant and instructive role on the construction of literature philology during the century, and promoted the development of Chinese literature philology. The thesis consists of six chapters.In introduction, based on the main researches on Liang Qi-chao's literature philology, the disseration proposes the key question, the research design and methodology.In chapter 1, Liang Qi-chao was the initiator who put forward literature philology and Chinese literature philology. He was able to illustrate literature philology, which was related to being trained academically in his life on one hand, on the other hand this was the outcome of the cultural trend of thought in the 20th century. Liang Qi-chao expounded the content, scope and significance of literature philology for the first time. He outlined the five principles and three standards of literature philology. Liang's viewpoints on it guided the development of Chinese literature philology, affecting the conception and subject construction of literature philology of Zheng He-sheng and his brother and Zhang Shun-hui, together with the construction of literature philology, symbolizing the sprout of modern literature philology.In chapter 2, Liang Qi-chao was the first one who initiated Chinese modern bibliography. His study on bibliography is the specific displaying of his conception of his conception of literature philology. The dissertation discusses his contribution to the development of Chinese bibliography mainly from two aspects. One is his development and influence to introduction bibliography. Liang Qi-chao inherited the good tradition of the past, enhanced its function of communication, made it become an important tool of communicating the modern culture, thus made it flourishing in the 20th century. The other is his initiating contribution to the research on Buddhism bibliography. Liang Qi-chao first combed the history of Buddhism bibliography and upgraded Buddhism bibliography in the history of Chinese bibliography. His research also had great influence upon Yao Ming-da, a bibliographer in China.In chapter 3, Liang Qi-chao was one of the initiators in modern Distinguishing Pseudoscience. Distinguishing Pseudoscience also was part of his literature philology. On one hand, Liang Qi- chao inherited the achievement of ancient Distinguishing Pseudoscience, on the other hand, he was influenced by the current suspecting classical literature. He obtained certain achievement in practice, and contributed to form a systematic theory, which laid a basis for modern Distinguishing Pseudoscience. His study of Distinguishing Pseudoscience helped shifting the emphasis on paractice to theory-forming.In chapter 4, Liang Qi-chao was one of representative scholars who firstly introduced Western learning and used it study literature in modern China. The usage of the methods of Western learning was the important part of his literature philology. He made full-scale use of the conception and method of Western learning to study ancient literature, and produced many valuable academic research results. He went beyond any scholars at his times, especially in the span of using it to study mordern literature. As a sort of paradigm,his method and research results, to a certain degree, promote the transformation of philology of 20th century from classical to modern.In chapter 5, Liang Qi-chao put forward the universal direction of development on the research of literature philology for the first time, which was also important content of his conception of literature philology. Liang Qi-chao was the important man who pushed forward the movement of culture universality in modern times that made him bring out and solve the question of universality about literature philology. His exploration in the direction of universality had affect upon the development of Chinese literature philology of the 20th century, and made literature philology change its development mode from single direction to multiple direction.