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Title:: Putting the Generation and Spread of Fan Zhongyan’s ClassicalImage into the Perspective of Contemporary Political Philosophy

Keywords:: Fan Zhongyan; classical image; generation and spread; political philosophy

Abstract:: Though there have been many studies on the generation and spread of Fan Zhongyan’s classicalimage，few put it into the perspective of contemporary political philosophy. Therefore，this paper tries toanalyze this issue by employing the field theory and the theory of imagined community of the contemporaryWestern political philosophy. On this view，there are four reasons for the generation and spread of Fan’sclassical image. Firstly，Fan Zhongyan made the prominent achievements in such fields as politics，military，education，and academic thoughts. Secondly，those who came from the same background as Fan made him anideological role model in order to seize the discursive power. Thirdly，those who described and shaped Fan’simage were the leading figures in political，social and cultural fields and their efforts produced an influentialdiscursive field. Lastly，the intellectuals who canonized Fan Zhongyan tried to meet their own needs forbuilding a shared community for themselves. After realizing the importance of Fan，both the rulers and thecommon people also joined in the efforts and thus consolidated the canonized position of Fan Zhongyan.