1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A historical study on the developement of the mind construction of Chinese literati
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05451066
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Asian history
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Univ. |
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Principal Investigator |
MIURA Shuichi Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Letters. Associate Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (80190586)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KUMAMOTO Takashi Tohoku Unic. Faculty of Letters. Associate Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (00153354)
YAMADA Katsuyoshi Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Letters. Prof., 文学部, 教授 (20002553)
YASUDA Jiro Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Letters. Prof., 文学部, 教授 (90036666)
HANATO Masahiro Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Letters. Prof., 文学部, 教授 (60107175)
NAKAJIMA Ryuzo Tohoku Univ. Faculty of Letters. Prof., 文学部, 教授 (10004061)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1995
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| Keywords | China / literati / elite / author / mind activity / politics / faith / religion |
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| Research Abstract |
We explored how the mind construction of Chinese literati was developed historically, using a method of the philological positivism. Some of important results are as follows ;
At the medieval Chinese Buddhist society, as some people who took the position that the two way of entering the truth by conviction intellectually and practice (****) were appeared, the leading faction began to attack them that they were dispising their doctrin and discipline, while the other religionist were tempting them that the man attained non-existant (*) should not need to lead an ascetic life. In general, the pre-modern Chinese literati are getting to internalize this composition of confrontation among the medieval Chinese Buddhist, that is to say this composition is making a basic mind frame of the pre-modern Chinese literati.
For instance, the Northern Sung literati took a strong interst how history was locating theirself, persistently held on their struggle for self-preservation while enholding thier descendant. Moreover a many kind of controversy about the propriety of feng-jian or jun-xian (**・**) and an assertion which the six Confucian canon (**) was one with a history had been recuring. These facts prove that the mind of the pre-modern Chinese literati is inclined to recognize the value of existant (*) as fame on a history, a definite argumentum, etc. However we think it also equippes itself with a theoretical apparatus for getting over that sort of existant, the reason why the purpose for such argument is not to maintain the present condition but to reorganize it.
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