Book/Printed Material Xiao xin zhai zha ji : shi er juan Volume 1

Title

• Xiao xin zhai zha ji : shi er juan

Other Title

• 小心齋劄記 : 十二卷 /
• Xiao xin zhai

Summary

• The author of this work was Gu Xiancheng (1550-1612), a late-Ming grand secretary and renowned educator. In 1604, together with his brother and a friend Gao Panlong, Gu revived a defunct Song institution named Donglin Academy at his native Wuxi, which became a locally based educational institution that held lectures attended by thousands. Later it extended to loosely associated groups in other cities. The Donglin's opposition to the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian resulted in the closure of the academy in 1622, but it reopened during the early Qing dynasty. The academy was a place for teaching Confucian moral traditions and in the late Ming and early Qing periods it became a center of dissent in public affairs. Insisting that education must relate to reality, Gu Xiancheng advocated practical education as opposed to the traditional schools. A follower of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, Gu recommended the Confucian classics and moral traditions, li xue (idealism), and provided a summary of the nine merits of a classical education. This work is an original printed version with 12 juan of notes by Gu dating from 1594 to 1605. The Qing Si ku cun mu (Catalog of books not included in the general catalog of the Si ku Collection) lists an expanded edition with 16 juan, including Gu's notes of four more years, apparently added by Gu's son, Gu Yuting, The preface and postscript, dated 1608, were written by Cai Xianchen, a director of the Bureau of Rites and Lin Zai, a magistrate and supporter of Gu. World Digital Library.

Names

• Gu, Xiancheng, 1550-1612, zhu
• Cai, Xianchen, xu
• Lin, Zaihou, xu
• Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• [China : s.n., Ming Wanli 36 nian, 1608]

Notes

• -  In case.
• -  Also available in digital form.
• -  九行十九字. Nine lines, with nineteen characters per line.
• -  原題:「無錫顧憲成著。」按此本始甲午訖乙巳，凡十二年，最為初刻。四庫存目著錄本凡十六卷，多丙午至辛亥四年，為其子與渟所增，則似為最後定本也。蔡獻臣(序)萬曆三十六年 (1608)，林宰後(序)萬曆三十六年 (1608).

Medium

• 4 v.

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2012402204

Online Format

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2012402204

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