Liu Xiang (scholar)

Liu Xiang (scholar)

Liu Xiang (zh-tspw|t=劉向|s=刘向|p=Liú Xiàng|w=Liu Hsiang 79-8 BCE) [Loewe (1986), 192.] born Liu Gengsheng (劉更生), courtesy name Zizheng (子政), was a famous Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty. He was born in Xuzhou and related to Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty. His son, Liu Xin, developed the "Triple Concordance" astronomical system.

Liu compiled the first catalogue of the imperial library and was the first editor of the "Shan Hai Jing"Fact|date=November 2007. He was a prodigious collector of old stories, which he compiled into the "Zhan Guo Ce", the "Xinxu" (新序, "New Prefaces"), the "Shuoyuan" (說苑, "Garden of Stories"), the "Lienü Zhuan", and probably the "Liexian Zhuan".

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References

* Fei, Zhengang, [http://203.72.198.245/web/Content.asp?ID=64185&Query=1 "Liu Xiang"] . "Encyclopedia of China" (Philosophy Edition), 1st ed.
* Loewe, Michael. (1986). "The Former Han Dynasty," in "The Cambridge History of China: Volume I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C. – A.D. 220, 103–222". Edited by Denis Twitchett and Michael Loewe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521243270.


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