Person1613 – 1682
Gu Yanwu
Also called: Gu Tinglin, Ku Yen-wu
Scholar of the Ming–Qing transition who refused to serve the Qing, championed learning for practical statecraft and pioneered evidential scholarship with his Record of Daily Knowledge
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After the fall of the Ming, Gu Yanwu and others called for learning of practical use and pioneered the testing of claims against ancient texts — a method that flowered in eighteenth-century Qing China as evidential scholarship on the classics.
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- Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning