Research on the academy group:constitution,principle and formation of Donglin academy network

As the most famous academy in late Ming Dynasty,Donglin Academy was never a isolated academy,but surrounded by lots of academies and literati clubs,which dotted along the Tai Lake and constituted a network of academies.With Lecturing (jianghui)as the most common way of contacting,this academy network aimed at attacking the notion of humanity is neither good nor bad.The formation of the whole network was,in fact,the shaping of Donglin school,and the process of Gu Xian-cheng's philosophy being accepted by more and more scholars.