Zhu Xi's Historical Thoughts (revised Edition)
by Tang Qinfu
About This Novel
This book conducts an overall study of Zhu Xi's historical thoughts. Zhu Xi took the Theory of Heaven as the cornerstone of his theory, and his historical philosophy was divided into three levels: Heavenly Principles, Events, and Mental Techniques. He had the characteristics of "using reason to explain history and using history to prove reason", and completely constructed a system of righteousness and history. Zhu Xi emphasized the complementarity of historical styles in the compilation of historical works, and the historian's mental skills in argumentation were the intermediate link between Liu Zhiji's three great historians and Zhang Xuecheng's theory of history. This book examines the writing process of "Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu" and denies the view that the Siku officials followed Wang Bai's work in the late Song Dynasty and that the book was written by Zhao Shiyuan. In the process of Zhu Xi being "sage-ed", the backward factors in his historical thoughts had a greater impact on later generations.
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