The Modern Confucian System Combining"Local Knowledge"and"Universal Knowledge":An Exploration of Kang Youwei's"New Scholarship of the Canton School"
As a famous reformer who advocated political change in the late Qing Dynasty,previous research on Kang Youwei has invariably focused on his historical experience and achievements in absorbing Western ideas.This article maintains that Kang Youwei's ideological structure was mostly a continuation of traditional Confucian thinking,and had three different aspects:"the scholarship of regionalism"(地域之学),"the scholarship of statecraft"(经世之学),and"the scholarship of great harmony"(大同之学).These three aspects interacted with each other closely and constituted an interconnected system of interpretation,which respectively represented the interactive influence of the three classic cognitive systems that Kang Youwei received:"County Sage"(乡贤)(Yue School in Ming Dynasty),"Han Confucianism"(汉儒)(the Research Style of Confucian Classics in Han Dynasty),and"Holy King"(圣王)(the Study of Ritual in Pre-Qin period).These were the true inspirations for Kang Youwei's conception of political reform in the late Qing Dynasty.Western learning only served as a reference to embellish and activate these traditional ideas.
Kang Youweithe scholarship of regionalismthe scholarship of statecraftthe scholarship of great harmony
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