Dissertation Information for Miaw-fen Lu NAME: - Miaw-fen Lu
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1997)
ADVISORS: - Benjamin A. Elman
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Herman Ooms - Richard Von Glahn - Robert E. Buswell
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Practice as knowledge: Yang-ming learning and chiang-hui in sixteenth-century China
Abstract: This dissertation examines Yang-ming learning and chiang-hui during sixteenth-century China. Special attention is paid to the interaction between individuals' thoughts, actions, contemporary politics, and culture.
In brief introduction, I outline past scholarship and generally present my methodology and research issues. Chapter 1 investigates the construction and development of the Yang-ming school. Topics include the role of the civil service examinations as an important context for the rise of Yang-ming learning, role of Wang Yang-ming-s political success in the construction of the Yang-ming school, and the strengthening of the Yang-ming school by both relying on and resisting political authority.
Chapter 2 discusses the characteristics of the Yang-ming chiang-hui and their relationship with academics (shu-yuan). The chiang-hui were elite associations formed in local society and they facilitated the revival of academies. Through chiang-hui, gentry and scholars were involved in the construction of academics and engaged in social and political affairs.
Chapter 3 considers Yang-ming scholars' use of the idea of Tao-t'ung to strive for the orthodoxy of their learning. By applying Wang Yang-ming's ideas to those of the Confucian disciple Yen-tzu, Yang-ming scholars claimed that Wang was the true heir to Yen-tzu.
Chapter 4 discusses the Yang-ming scholars' friendly associations and their ideas about friendship, emphasizing the interactions between the two. The emphasis Yang-ming scholars placed on friendship as the most fundamental human relationship meant a reformulation of the traditional order of the five human relationships. This signaled a new direction in the significance of friendship in Chinese intellectual history.
Chapter 5 discusses two practices engaged in by the Yang-ming scholars that were related to their notion of self: intensive practices aimed at enlightenment and, thus, the discovery of the true self, and self-expression through unconventional behavior, the spirit of k'uang. Finally, the role of academies and the links between Yang-ming learning and some late-Ming issues are discussed in concluding remarks.
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