劉向劉更生子政
historian philosopher writer poet
Among his polymathic scholarly specialties were history, literary bibliography, and astronomy. He is particularly well known for his bibliographic work in cataloging and editing the extensive imperial library. Family
Liu Xiang"s father ranked as a marquess.
Liu Xiang"s son, Liu Xin, would continue the scholarly tradition of his father and his relative Liu An (the Prince of Huainan).
Middle career
Again, briefly imprisoned, Liu Xiang was soon released, but terminated from official position, and he received no new appointments to office for the next fifteen years. Bibliographer
The succession of Han Chengdi to the imperial throne was accompanied by a realignment of power, among the various factions involved in government, and Liu Xiang was finally on the right side of things for the purpose of an official career in the Han government.
In 26 Bachelor of Civil Engineering, at the command of emperor Han Chengdi, Liu Xiang spent much of the rest of the some 20 years of his life engaged in his massive bibliographic work on organizing the imperial library.
By the beginning of Han Yuandi"s reign, Liu Xiang was a member of a group of Confucian officials, including Xiao Wangzhi, who wished to limit the power of the emperor"s female family member"s relatives" clans, the Shi and the Xu. But, ended up on the wrong side of a power struggle involving the powerful eunuchs Hong Gong and Shi Xian.
