Represented by Confucians such as Dong Zhongshu, this school advocated a holistic interpretation of Confucian classics and viewed Confucius as a charismatic, visionary prophet, a sage who deserved the Mandate of Heaven but did not attain kingship due to circumstances.
The school was reinvigorated by a group of scholars who were dissatisfied with the popular Neo-Confucianism at the time in the late Ming dynasty.
[2] The scholar Zhuang Cunyu (1718–1788), a secretary to the Qianlong emperor, was the pioneer of the Changzhou Current Script Texts school revival.
Dissatisfied with his apolitical colleagues in the Han learning movement, Zhuang published studies based on the Current Script Texts aiming to interpret the writings of Confucius' as prescriptions on government, especially with regard to the corruption and lawlessness of his contemporaries.
[3] By far the most important feature of the Current Script Texts as political movement was advocating reform (Zhuang Cunyu, Liu Fenglu), drawing from the Gongyang legalist-style ideology of "weighing the circumstances".