Studies on “Ming Confucian Scholar’s Analects”

The importance of ‘Ming Ju Hsueh An’ (Confucianism Document of the Ming Dynasty):
This book has reflected the editor and scholar Huang Chung-Si’s viewpoint toward the history of intellectual thought of the Ming Dynasty. The records begins with the school of thought of Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Chu His. The remaining part of this book includes the following major events in the history of intellectual thought during the Ming Dynasty: first, the period when Wang Yang-Ming’s idea emerged as the major trend of intellectual thought, scholars of Cheng and Chu struggled to fight against the school of thought of Wang; second, with the integration between the two schools of thought of Chu and Wang by scholars of the school of Dung-Lin, these two schools finally were able to be unified in the thought of Ji-Shan Liu. By this time period, the Ming Dynasty was also reaching its end.
Most importantly, this book contains almost all the branches of school of thought of the Neo-Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty. It is a collection of biographies and articles written by numerous scholars; the material gathered in the book is abundant and they also appropriately reflected Huang’s creative and fine viewpoint on history of intellectual thoughts. Thus, this book has therefore become a fundamental reference book in the study of the history of intellectual thought of the Ming Dynasty.