The Rejuvenation of the Ancient Learning in the Late Qing Period:An Attempt to Bring the Old Learning into the New Knowlecdge System

In the process of “Preserving quintessence of Chinese culture” and “rejuvenating the old learning” in the late Qing period, Zhang Taiyan, Liu Shipei and other scholars began to preliminarily arrange the Chinese ancient learning, thus starting the job of unearthing, organizing, researching and integrating Chinese academic heritages. Re-organizing Chinese ancient books with Western new knowledge, new theories and new methods, and finding new meanings of the Chinese old learning are the inexorable trend of the late Qing academic evolution. Explaining the old learning with new knowledge, drawing an analogy between the Chinese learning and the Western learning, making definition for the Chinese old learning with modern course system are the basic ideas for late Qing scholars to re-organize the Chinese old learning. It was in the process of continuously re-organizing and integrating the Chinese traditional learning that the Chinese traditional learning began to change its intrinsic pattern and gradually melt in modern Western new knowledge system.