李梦阳

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• Such factionalism was actually much more complicated, however. The north-south divide that arose from the episodes surrounding the civil service examination and the formation of political cliques can be properly understood only if we keep in mind the three layers of the divide outlined in the introduction the actual differences in ecological, economic, administrative and social conditions; the differences between northern and southern literati in their intellectual orientation and views of the state; and the perceived or imagined north-south divide and how it has been used historically to interpret political, social, cultural and intellectual differences. The north-south dispute that plagued Ming politics corresponds to the third layer. The north-versus-south contention was rhetorical, an... (查看原文)

  匪廢費·老🐰 2021-08-10 17:50:45

• I have divided my discussion of Li Mengyang’s thought into three main sections. His theory about how the cosmos works and how it affects the human world, his views on how literati learning should be tailored to serve the state, and his insistence that the art of literary writing is an independent pursuit for expressing selfhood were the three pillars of his intellectual vision. In the end it was the third pillar that earned him the reputation for which he is remembered. (查看原文)

  匪廢費·老🐰 2021-08-18 13:19:50