The Changes in Confucianism and the Academic Vicissitudes at the End of the Ming Dynasty and the Beginning of the Qing Dynasty

Abstract

The late Ming and early Qing dynasties were an era of great changes in Chinese academic thought. The great changes in academic thought in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties not only had a profound socioeconomic and political background, but also had intrinsic ideological and cultural origins. This is the "body" and "yong" of Confucianism. ", the focus of "literature" changes with social changes.