The Culture Reflection Under Imperial Ching Dynasty-- the Compiling Visual Field in Taiwan Gazetteers and the Reconstruction of the Image of Taiwanese People in the “Folk Custom Category”

• Main Authors: Yi-Jong Wu, 吳宜蓉
• Other Authors: 吳明勇
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76840189615048932567

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歷史學系碩士在職專班 === 99 === Taiwan was incorporated into the operation system of the Chinese Qing Empire in the Kangxi twenty third year (AD 1684). This giant empire was about to know the tiny island located in the southeast coast. A huge empire machine was ready to mesh its heavy wheels with the pinion of the small island, and activated the driven wheel by giving island the rhythms and tempos that empire’s memberships required. Question is, how to "chimera"? How to let the tiny island familiar with the rhythms of this giant and sophisticated operation system appropriately? Therefore, the Qing empire utilized Taiwan gazetteers (fangzhi方志) to understand this unfamiliar island which he had never met before, in order to control the people and consolidate its political power. That is not only necessary but would be a relatively considerate and wise policy. However, as the Taiwan gazetteers (fangzhi方志) acted as the eye of the empire, it was seemingly an objective, rigorous , and systematic narratives; moreover, it was also written and influenced under inherent values and ideology of the empire. All things are placed in a specific classification and category, and the connotation of narratives represented was also shaped by the process and how compilers had illustrated. In other words, when viewers were reading, the tendency of subject values has already confined the viewers deeply in a set of customs and limitation. Therefore, I believe that the selections and tendencies of the subjective values had been already rooted deeply in the Qing Dynasty Taiwan gazetteers writers and editors’ minds before their investigation on the customary field works(cǎi fēng wen su采風問俗). Also, they had decided the narrative structure and directions under the Qing Dynasty gazetteers(fangzhi方志) official normative framework. The thesis put emphasis on the Qing Dynasty Taiwan gazetteers writers and editors and the compiling visual field in Taiwan Gazetteers. In addition to organizing the areas, compiling years, and the name list of writers and editors, the paper will analyze how they documented Taiwan, how they illustrated good morals, and how they reported the facts from their observations and perspectives; then to present the gazetteers based on their own value tendency and exiting cultural framework that empire established.