| Zhang Xingcheng(1887- 1973), named zhong qing, was a famous specialist on historic records discrimination, who was barn in Suqiao county. Guungxi Autonomon Region. Born in a scholastically biased home, Mr Zhang received the demure archaic training from his grandfather and father .When he was young, he majored in English at the Imperial University. He was preoccupied with his study, only to get a lot acquainted with western culture which intermingled with Chinese culture in his mind. Rich in books in his house. Mr Zhang was available reading a great number of books, resulting in laying a solid foundation for his future discrimination of forged ancient books.Different from his contempories, Mr Zhang was mainly engaged in accounting work besides his studs' of ancient books and annals .Through his painstaking efforts, he was soon promoted to be the accounting director in Chinese government in Nanjing. Later on, he became a soeciaiist in accounting field. Mr Zhang was the founder of Guangxi accounting cause. During several decades hard work, Mr Zhang sounded the accounting system in Guangxi Autonomon Region and trained a large number of accounting talents. What's more, he had written over to monographs on accounting, according to "the Unified catalogue in Guangxi Annals "and "Reserves catalogue in GuiLin Library."Additon to discrimination of ancient books, Mr Zhang was engrossed in archaeology. Became he had solid Chinese foundation, Mr Zhang had also made great achievement in archaeology. Among others, the publishing of "General Survey of Forged Ancient Books" was just the quintessence of his knowledge. The advent of "General Survey of Forged Ancient Books" was just the time of domestic trouble and foreign invasion in China. Under the coercion of national sublimations and genocide, Chinese intellectuals, who had strong patriotic emotion, set off a new upsurge of study ancient records. Their purposes were as follows: First, to uncover the imperialist invasion; Secondly, to seek "good medicine for rescuing the would"; Thirdly, to Stir up the patriotic enthusiasm and to keep up the nation's struggle. Under the influence ofcontemporary idea, the school of "discrimination for ancient annals' came into being in the histoxy field and made great progress in ancient history and discrimination of ancient books."General Survey of Forged Ancient Books" came into being with the aspiration of time spirit, the development of academy itself as well as painstaking building-up. The first edition contained 1059 sections, but the second edition rose to 1104 sections. It was one of the richest and the most perfect research tools for textual criticism of ancient books. Mr Zhang had become a comprehensive expression in this field. Concentrated on his working for several decades, Mr Zhang rewrote the draft of "General Survey of Forged Ancient Books" twice, which has been republished for four times ever since. The book has been well received by the intellectuals due to its "abundance"and "profundity".The most popular about this book is that it was based on the names of the ancient books and aimed at the exposition of all the other experts. The another collected all the quintessence of textual criticism from the Spring-Autumn Period to Contemporary time, including the another's critical research for 71 ancient books. If you get such a book at hand you can roughly understand the sequence of ideas about textual criticism in China as well as development level on the ancient research on ancient books in all the Dynasties. "General Survey of Forged Ancient Books" is a comprehensive examination for the results of textual criticism since over 2000 years ago and provide the extreme convenience for the scholars.Carrying on the unfinished task and potential the predecessors, Chinese ancient books discrimination passed on from generation to generation with the help of Zhang Xing cheng. Under the edification of "General Survey of Forged Ancient Books", the modem inherit the cause of the predecessors. It is over 50 years since...
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