University This article focuses on the Neo-Confucian tradition of the Min (Fujian) Learning and its relationship to the building of a philosophical school in the world of Ming Confucianism. I hope to throw light on the evolution of Ming intellectual communities as well as on the general intellectual history of late imperial China. This study reconstructs the conflicts and debates between Confucian scholars in Fujian and the school of Wang Yangming. To distinguish themselves from both the Wang Yangming school and other philosophical schools, scholars in Fujian came together as a group and formulated their own philosophical doctrine based on the tradition of the Zhu Xi school. What emerged was a strong and unyielding philosophical school which was able to give theoretical coherence to its disciples in order to spread its teachings, thus influencing established schools of thought. The scholars of the Zhu Xi school in Fujian advanced their doctrine by establishing academies, publishing works, organizing discussions and debates, lecturing to large audiences, engaging in philosophical exchanges through correspondence with outsiders, and constructing an intellectual genealogy of local scholars through historical investigation and even creating out of whole cloth such relationships as teacher and disciple among the older and younger generations in Fujian.