Zhang Xuecheng is famous for historiography and bibliography of Qing Dynasty.He had devoted himself to giving lectures,writing and compiling history and annals.He regarded the phrase'to govern society and to learn in order to practice'as his guiding principle of doing scholary research,and on the basis of summing up experience of predecessors,he developed bibliographical doctrine of ancient China from theory to method,Even today,the aim of bibliography,'to grasp the true meaning of learning by clarifying all its origin and change',and the metho...
