A Preliminary Investigation of the Contending among the Hundred Schools in the Song Dynasty

Since the time when Comrade Mao Zedong and the party's Central Committee, summing up the experience and lessons of Chinese and world history, proposed the correct policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools contend" as a general guideline for the promotion of a flowering in science and arts, academic circles throughout the country have raised a number of scholarly questions and published different opinions. There have been many healthy and vibrant developments in the academic style of free discussion and debate, reflecting the tremendous effect of this correct policy.