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A Study on Timely Inclination in Scholarship of Qing Loyalist, WangGuoWei: Focus on “ShuoWenJinxuzhuanwenheyiguzhoushuo”

Young-Sub Lee 1

1중앙대학교

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As everyone knows, Wang Guowei(王國維) was one of the great scholars in modern China, who was very erudite. He was very accomplished in literature, philosophy, grammatology, and ancient history. Often, people pay attention to his scholarly accomplishments, but forget the fact that he was a representative Qing loyalist. This kind of approach hinders us from understanding the complete picture of his scholarship. Rereading his “ShuoWenJinxuzhuanwenheyiguzhoushuo”(≪說文≫今敍篆文合以古籀說), this paper reassesses his original analysis of Shuowenjizi (≪說文解字≫). Wang represented an objection against the established analysis. Especially, he did not agree on the established opinion that Xiaozhuan(小篆)s are main entries and Guwen(古文)s and Zhouwen(籒文)s are appended in the later parts. He thought that almost half of 9,353 characters in Shuowenjizi have just Guwen and Zhouwen, having no Xiaozhuan. Without total analysis of political situation of his time, currents of scholarly world, and his political disposition, this standpoint of his in grammatology cannot be understood properly. So, this paper shows that his political stance as a Qing loyalist exerted what kind of influence on his scholarly assertions, through considerations on his disposition revealed in “ShuoWenJinxuzhuanwenheyiguzhoushuo.” And this is also a proof that understanding about his other astonishing scholarly accomplishments needs the same approach.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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