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Wang Yangming Thought as Cultural Capital: The Case of Yongkang County

In the early sixteenth century, when the learning of Wang Shouren (henceforth, Wang Yangming [1472–1528]) was drawing intense attention and debate, two literati of Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, were among the first to correspond with him. Soon thereafter, ten more Jinhua literati crossed the prefectural border to meet with him at Yuyao. Interestingly, they were all from the same district (xiang) in Yongkang County, and most of them were tied to one another by blood and marriage. As early as the 1520s, the members of this narrow network established the Wufeng (Five Peaks) Academy at a location more or less equidistant from their respective family residential sites. To the best of our knowledge, no one else in Jinhua showed such enthusiasm for Wang’s teaching at the time. The impact of this new intellectual trend on local society has special significance in this case. In his research on the literati of Taihe County during the Ming Dynasty, John W. Dardess concludes that they were quick to lose interest in cultural issues specific to their local areas, shifting focus instead to this new intellectual trend. Jinhua literati, by contrast, refreshed their memory of the past and reconstructed their local identity on the basis of their distinctive local legacy. In the late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, in particular, influential local scholars imbued the local literati with a long-established, but now renewed, collective identity constructed exclusively upon the foundations of a local, but nationally renowned, Daoxue legacy. This legacy supplied the later revivalists with the foundation from which to contest contemporary