"The Thoughts of the Poor" - Gaiyo Soukou

…However, when the Lin Shuangwen Rebellion broke out in Taiwan in 87, he was asked by the Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang Li Shiyao to become a staff officer, and he devote himself to pacifying the rebellion. After the rebellion, he resigned from his post and became a lecturer at the Anding Academy, where he devoted himself to writing. His work, “The Twenty-Two Histories,” examines the descriptions in the official history and develops his own historical theory, and is considered an excellent overview of Chinese history. His academic essays covering the classics and history, “Guangyu Congguan,” are also famous. His other works include “The Chronicles of Military Affairs in the Dynasty” and “The Miscellaneous Records of the Qing Dynasty.” He is considered one of the three great historians of the Qing Dynasty, along with Wang Mingsheng and Qian Daxin. He was also famous for his poetry, and wrote “Poetry of Oubei” and “Poetry of Oubei,” and was praised on a par with his contemporaries Yuan Mei and Jiang Shiquan. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Feng Yu Congcao" are listed below.

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…しかし87年台湾に林爽文の乱が起こると，閩浙（びんせつ）総督李侍尭に懇望されて幕僚となり，その平定に画策，乱後は再び官を辞して安定書院の主講となり著述に専念した。その著《二十二史劄記（さつき）》は，正史の記述について考証を加えるとともに独自の史論を展開したもので，すぐれた中国史の概論ともいうべく，また経史にわたる学問的随筆としての《陔余（がいよ）叢考》も有名で，ほかに《皇朝武功紀盛》《簷曝雑記》があり，王鳴盛，銭大昕（せんだいきん）とともに清朝の三大史家とされる。一方，詩名も高く《甌北詩集》《甌北詩話》があり，同時代の袁枚（えんばい），蔣士銓と並称された。…

※「《陔余叢考》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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