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Zhang Xuecheng

Great Historiographical Philosopher of the Qing Dynasty and Formulator of 'All Classics are History'

Also known as Zhang Shizhai · Shizhai · Wenshi Tongyi Zuozhe · Liujing Jie Shi Changdaozhe

Pioneering historiographical philosopher of the Qing Dynasty who authored Wenshi Tongyi and established the epochal principle that 'All the Six Classics are History'.

Life and times

  1. 1738BornQing
  2. 1801Died

Records

Zhang Xuecheng compiles local gazetteers and writes the Wenshi tongyi

Qianlong era, Qing

Zhang Xuecheng, courtesy name Shizhai, from Kuaiji, became a jinshi in the forty-third year of Qianlong (1778) and held the post of Registrar of the Directorate of Education. He knew the affairs of the late Ming court well, and Zheng Bingwen of Xiushui said he had the talent of a good historian. The gazetteers he compiled for Hezhou, Bozhou and Yongqing county were well judged, and he wrote the Wenshi tongyi and the Jiaochou tongyi.

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