Intelligence And Emotion: Shen Yue's Thought World

ShenYue, a very noticeable and long-lived scholar of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, whose lifetime spanned three dynasties Song, Qi and Liang, outstood in the field of literature and history. In literature, as one of advocators of the Yong-Ming new style, his literary ideas and creative works, somehow, became the example of literature in his time. Thus he was considered as a literary leader and a master of Ci, a form of Chinese classical poetry. In history, he composed four history books-History of the Jin Dynasties, History of the Song Dynasties, History of the Qi Dynasties and History of the Emporer Liangwu, among which, History of the Song Dynasties Besides mastering in Confucian classics, Philosophy Classics and Phonology, he knew well about Taoism, Buddhism,either. It is no wonder that he was praised by historiographer with the verse "he is a typical example in his time for being adept in history and knowledgeable".Contemporarily, the research achievements about ShenYue are abundant in various aspects. Still, some problems are worthwhile more insightful study. For example, connections bridged his literature works and history masterpieces could be a more comprehensive and integral research; on his practical works, there is still room to carry some more insightful study on his works of Taoism and Buddhism; also, the relevant foreign research achievements,eg, Japan, and the United States could be introduced in a complete study. With the help of existed research fruits, the dissertation attempted to probe the development of his inner thought and the outside influence on him from the angle of thinking research, to rebuild ShenYue a relatively complete historical image.The dissertation consists of six parts as the introduction, four chapters of body part and appendix.Introduction, also a review, mainly summarized and commented relevant academic research achievements for about 100 years.The first chapter studied ShenYue's ancestry and his study experience. Based on the previous academic research, the dissertation made a systematic study of ShenYue" family and his own experience, as well as his influence during the process of rank his family to the aristocracy class.The second chapter is about his research on intellectualism world. Considering the rise of intellectualism in Southern Dynast and what Shen Yue created, especially his History of the Song Dynasties,the dissertation analyzed how he developed his intellectualism system. With emphasis placed on his texts of history, politics and religion, the dissertation discussed his social values, history and politics thoughts and religion thought which embodied in.The third chapter revealed Shen Yue's inner world. Applying the modern approaches, the dissertation analyzed his feeling and aesthetics implied in his literal works from the perspectives mass feelings and personal feelings.The fourth chapter briefly studied Shen Yue's historiography strategies only to find that his talents for literature penetrated from history works; meanwhile his competence of historiography were indicated in his literature works.Appendix collected the concise chronology of Shen Yue.