Yu Yue
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Yu Yue in the Portraits of Chinese Scholars of the Qing Period
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| Born | December 1821 |
| Died | February 5, 1907 (aged 85) |
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| Era | Qing Dynasty |
| Main interests | Philology, textual studies |
| Notable works | List of Yu's works |
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| Influenced | Zhang Taiyan |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Yuè |
| Wade–Giles | Yü2 Yüeh4 |
| IPA | [y̌ ɥê] |
Yu Yue (Chinese: 俞樾; 1821–1907), courtesy name Yinfu, hao Quyuan, was a prominent scholar and official of Qing Dynasty China. An expert in philology and textual studies, he taught and wrote prolifically on the classics and histories.Yu Pingbo was his great-grandson; one of his most important disciples was Zhang Taiyan.
Yu Yue hailed from Deqing, Zhejiang, and later moved to Renhe, now a subdistrict of Hangzhou.
In 1850, Yu passed the imperial examination as metropolitan graduate, and was appointed junior compiler in the Hanlin Academy. He then served successively in a variety of academic posts in the imperial bureaucracy, and was later promoted to educational instructor of Henan, not long before his resigning from this position and withdrawing to Suzhou, where he became a private teacher and devoted himself full-time to classical studies. From 1868 on, he was director of the Gujing Academy (詁經精舍), which he headed for more than 30 years. Yu's analyses of the classics are widely admired for their philological acumen, and he has had a large influence on both Chinese and foreign students of the Chinese classics, particularly in Japan.
Yu's philosophy was inclined to the teachings of Wang Niansun and Wang Yinzhi, who interpreted Confucian classics in a practical way. In the 1860s, Yu was intimately involved in restoring the Gujing Academy, a sishu (private academy) established by Ruan Yuan in 1800 yet destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. As opposed to the then dominant goal of education—namely education as pathway towards an official career—Yu aimed to provide a non-political environment for classics studies and stressed philology and historical research during his teaching, an intellectual tradition initiated by Gu Yanwu and Dai Zhen.
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