Historical Context and Influential Interpretations of the Six Principles of Writing Theory

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ㆍ발행기관 : 세계한자학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : 世界漢字硏究 / 6권 / 2호
ㆍ저자명 : Jan VIHAN

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The Zhou Li Context
The Yiwen Zhi Narrative
Three rival conceptions
The ordering of the six principles
The Primacy of Abstraction
Dai Zhen’s philosophical grounding of the principles
Duan Yucai and the paradigm for philology
Two Exegetical Principles and Establishing Common Ground
Corroborating Xu Shen’s Theory with the Body of His Dictionary
Han Modes of Interpretation
Criticizing Dai Zhen Using His Own Method
Zhang Taiyan, Dialect Convergence, and Indo-European ComparativeLinguistics
Lu Zongda and the Objective Diachronic Perspective
Qiu Xigui and Discarding the Traditional Framework
Direction of Further Research
References

영어 초록

Aspects of the liu shu 六書 theory continue to be used today to analyse Chinese characters, yet most scholars are unaware of the historical context out of which the theory emerged and the controversies surrounding its both initial and subsequent interpretations. I trace the origins of the theory to the Eastern Han and compare its three earliest rival formulations. Subsequent centuries saw a proliferation of interpretations which rendered any attempt at a unified vision of Chinese writing impossible. The trend of adding new explanations was only reversed by the Qing scholars Dai Zhen and Duan Yucai who, drawing on some of the earliest explanations, argued that the theory encapsulated not only the way characters were composed but also their exegesis. Even if they laid the ground for a shared interpretation, Dai and Duan’s take on the Eastern Han scholar Xu Shen did not go unchallenged. I discuss Zhang Taiyan’s and Lu Zongda’s criticism and their attempts to reconcile aspects of the traditional framework with modern linguistics. I finally contrast this updating of an ancient theory with the approach of Qiu Xigui who selectively discards one of the principles and thereby the very feasibility of the framework as a whole.

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