A Study Of The Academic And The Politics Of Huang Chao Jing Shi Wen San Bian

From the 1860s onwards,the capitalist mode of production was brought in by SelfStrengthening Movement,the relatively traditional and closed feudal small peasant economy of China began to be affected and changed.With this change in the economic base,the superstructure was inevitably reconstructed,and how to change the superstructure under the keynote of "saving the country and trying to survive" naturally became a theme of thought and practice for the administrative bureaucrats and intellectuals of the era.This article takes the long-lasting,extensive,wide-ranging and historically influential "Jing-Shi Wen-Bian" of the late Qing Dynasty as the object of study,and selects one of its representative sequels,the "Huang Chao Jing Shi Wen San Bian ",as the central point of observation.Chapter 1,’Background and motivation’,firstly introduces the socio-historical background of the late Qing Dynasty,including the decline of central authority and imperial rule,the flourishing and ending of the foreign affairs movement,the transformation of traditional scholarship and the development of new Western knowledge.Secondly,it summarises three motivations for compiling the work:firstly,the continuation of the tradition of the Classic and Worldly Writings;secondly,the concern for the realities,especially the foreign affairs;and thirdly,the uniqueness of the work in comparison with other editions.Finally,a brief introduction is given to the"Huang Chao Jing Shi Wen San Bian"Chapter 2,’Authors and Important Groups in the Academic and the Politics’,provides a comprehensive analysis of the authors,finding that not only were they close in time,diverse in identity and geographically concentrated,but that there were also There are three important groups:the Yang Wu Pai,the intellectuals of Jiangsu and Zhejiang,and the reformists of Guangdong.Chapter 3 ’An analysis of the content of the Academic’ and Chapter 4’An analysis of the content of the Politics’ analyses the content of all the articles included in this section,exploring the common concerns of these articles and their authors.Chapter 5’Characteristics of the Academic and the Politics ’builds on Chapters 3 and 4.Through a deeper exploration of the text,four features emerge:firstly,there is a general consensus that the change to the new system is no longer a mere patchwork of the old system;secondly,the pursuit of scholarship and knowledge is no longer confined to traditional scholarship,and the thirst for and emphasis on the new knowledge of the West is elevated to a new status;thirdly,there is a gradual shift in perspective from the top to the bottom,with the monarch and the scholar no longer being the absolute focus,not only in terms of the content of the selected texts,but also in terms of the composition of the authors.Fourthly,talent and education were elevated.Huang Chao Jing Shi Wen San Bian is compared both horizontally and vertically,and the Huang Chao Jing Shi Wen San Bian are found to have served as a bridge between the upper and lower parts of the entire sequence of the late Qing dynasty’s Jing-Shi Wen-Bian.