Xiong Huizhen
Xiong Huizhen (
Shui jing zhu
.
Biography
Xiong Huizhen was born in
Shui jing zhu. Having completed 40 volumes of annotation, he died in 1915 without completing the work. Xiong carried on the project and wrote another 40 volumes. He also made the final editing of the entire work, painstakingly proofreading the annotations word by word.[1]
It took Xiong 22 years to complete the work, known as the Shui jing zhu shu.[2] He refused offers made by Japanese scholars to purchase the book. However, when he learned that the descendants of Yang Shoujing had secretly sold some manuscripts, he committed suicide by hanging himself in 1936.[2]
The
Fu Sinian negotiated on behalf of Academia Sinica and the Ministry of Education to purchase the manuscript from Yang's heir Yang Mianzhi for 3,000 dollars, and brought it to Hong Kong for safekeeping. It was eventually published in Taiwan the early 1950s, and in mainland China in 1957.[2]
The influential historian Gu Jiegang commented that the Shui jing zhu shu "brought to a point of culmination the textual research of The Classic of Waterways of the previous three centuries." He greatly admired Yang Shoujing and Xiong Huizhen for their "single-minded devotion" to the task, and Xiong's devotion to his master.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-00284-5.
- ^ a b c Wang Ping (20 November 2002). "杨守敬与《水经注疏》的命运" (in Chinese). China.com.cn.
Further reading
- Wang Pijiang 汪辟疆 (1988). "Biographies of Yang Shoujing and Xiong Huizhen". 汪辟疆文集. Shanghai Guji Publishing House. ISBN 9787532502776.
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