Nichiroku - Nichiroku

This is the major work of Gu Yanwu, a thinker from the early Qing Dynasty in China, and is a book that empirically discusses various academic, political and social issues. It consists of 32 volumes. It selects fundamental academic and important political and social issues, and sets out topics that have not yet been discussed by ancient people and will be of benefit to future generations, and determines the length of each text according to the importance of the subject. This book, which was written over the course of more than 30 years, was based on deep scholarship and was written from an empirical and practical perspective for the sake of economics and governance. It is a typical example of Chinese narrative style and is considered to represent the highest level of Qing Dynasty scholarship.

[Koji Sano]

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中国、清(しん)代初期の思想家顧炎武(こえんぶ)の主著で、学術、政治社会の諸問題を実証的に論じた書。32巻。学術の根本問題と政治社会の重要問題を選択して、古人がいまだ論及せず、後世に裨益(ひえき)する項目をたて、事柄の軽重によって文の長短を定めている。深い学殖に基づき、実証的、経世致用的見地から、三十余年を経て成ったこの書は、中国の叙述法の一典型であり、清朝学術の最高水準を示すものとされる。

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