Yang Xiangkui and the Qing Dynasty Academic History Research

It took Yang Xiangkui ten years to write the 3500,000-word around and eight-volume book—《QINGRU XUEAN》in his late years. This book took on two effects that were Qing dynasty academic ideology history and Qing dynasty academic ideology historical data selections. From this we can peek the origin and genre of Qing dynasty academic ideology’s development. Yang Xiangkui praised the learners in early Qing dynasty that they possessed rich spirit in pursuing their studies. In the same time , Yang Xiangkui considered that they all have the characteristics of researching the relation between the heaven and the people,setting up the school of oneself”. In this point they can be compared to the ideologists in pre-Qin dynasty Still Yang Xiangkui thoroughly research the Qianjia school, which ran through the Qing dynasty more than two hundred years. He set a high value on the Qianjia learners’academic harvest, as well, he highly praised their practical and realistic attitude in study. Contemporary, Yang Xiangkui thought there was Changzhou school which appeared along with the Qianjia school. The two schools, which were like two mountains that stand facing each other, or like the Jing River and the Wei River that distributing, went though to the late Qing dynasty and never decline.