《大學問》刻本考 - 集中於嘉靖四十五年以前 -

Abstract

This article investigates in details all kinds of editions of Wang Yangming's Inquiry on the Great Learning by the 45th year of emperor jia jing's reign in Ming dynasty (1567). It not only corrects the errors in the paper previously written by Wu Zhen, but also reports the lives and academic of many scholars of Yangming School in the period of middle and later Ming such as Shen Chong, Wang Xing, Song Yiwang, Meng Jin and so on, and tells the whole story of Nie Bao's association with the ancient edition of the Great Learning. The fact that the most of important disciples of Wang Yangming taking part in the inscription of or being inspired by Inquiry on the Great Learning questions again the truth of the statement by Qian Dehong about the origin of Inquiry on the Great Learning.