Library

This book attempts to focus on Dongguan and explore the inner connection between the activities of compiling books and compiling history during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the cultural construction of the imperial country. As the core institution of the national cultural undertakings of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dongguan had a greater influence on later generations in three ways: first, the relevant school officials participated in the Baihu Temple Conference and wrote the "White Tiger Theory of Tongde", completing the theoretical construction of the official ideology of the imperial country; second, correcting the text of the scriptures and promulgating them to the world; third, gathering Confucian scholars to compile the history of the country. The text of scriptures and their interpretation, as well as the writing of the history of this dynasty, began to rise from individual behavior to the collective administrative operation of the country. This change weakened the personal authority of scribes and historians and helped to construct the legal "political system" of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Dongguan is actually an integrated platform for the country to deal with many aspects of knowledge, education, and ideological issues. The evolution of academics in the Eastern Han Dynasty is basically consistent with the process of cultural integration in imperial countries at that time.