A Compative Study of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan CountyExamples of Art and Culture Gazetteer

• Main Authors: Hui-Ling Hsu, 徐惠玲
• Other Authors: 抽換本(民103年11月20日)
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p7s988

博士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用中國文學系博士班 === 101 === The compiling of gazetteer includes materials investigating, assembling, textual researching, classifying, composing, and editing; with each section persists infallible attitudes, standpoints and manners to cope with problems, and to look for accurate viewpoints, detailed contents, and thorough styles of gazetteer compiling. And yet, how to successfully compile the gazetteers and to help readers read conveniently as well depends on the gazetteer’s arbitration in knowledge, talents, and virtues of history. While gazetteer development entered into a brand new stage in postwar Taiwan, gazetteer compiling has become prevalent, and gazetteer styles and compiling methods get more scientific; therefore, the repairing and constructing of gazetteers has contributed tremendously to Taiwanese gazetteers. This study takes Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County as examples to make it as a start for more aficionados to devote into this research field and to help make Taiwanese gazetteers more perfectly. This dissertation has divided into seven chapters and eighteen sections with fifteen appendices and references written in more than two hundred thousand words. The scaffolding of the research is mainly based on history development and assisted with gazetteer compiling to explore the development of Chinese and Taiwanese gazetteer compiling; and also to further investigate the compiling progress of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County after WWII in Taiwan through systematical collation and discussion to summarize the monolithic research results. In addition, at the end of each chapter, there is a brief sum-up to round up the focus of the chapter. The following is to clarify the arrangements of the chapters and sections: Chapter I is Preface which is to elaborate the purpose, methodology, document exploring, and research structures of this dissertation. Chapter II—The Compiling and Development of Chinese Gazetteers, generally recounts related materials of Chinese conventional gazetteer compiling and Taiwanese gazetteers with investigation of two sections of Chinese Gazetteer Exploring and Chinese Gazetteer Compiling to explain respectively the origins, definition, denomination, attributes, classification, characteristics, and theories of gazetteers; and recounts the generally situation of Chinese gazetteer compiling development in generations to examine the “constancy” and “difference” of Chinese gazetteer compiling convention. Chapter III is Progress of Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling. Three sections include Prewar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, Postwar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, and Features of Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling; among them, Prewar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling includes gazetteers of Qing Dynasty and Japanese period, Postwar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, to examine the gazetteer compiling circumstances of Taiwan Provincial Common History Historica and archives of every county in order to understand the general situation of gazetteer compiling in postwar Taiwan. Chapter IV is the compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, which includes Compiling Background of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, Compiling Team and Review System of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, Content and Structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi Count, to explain respectively every edition of Chiayi County Gazetteer, compiling team members, process of reviewing, and the compiling contents and structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County. Chapter V is the compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, also contains Compiling Background of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, Compiling Team and Review System of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, Contents and Structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, to explain respectively every edition of Taoyuan County Gazetteer, compiling team members, process of reviewing, and the compiling content and structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. Chapter VI is Comparing the Compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County—Centered with Arts and Cultures. As the “Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures” plays a decisive role in the gazetteer, the major studying object will be the arts and cultures of the county gazetteer. However, contents of a gazetteer is immense and diverse that to understand the processing history of “Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures” and to observe its contents fair-mindedly, we examine the definitions, phases of “arts and cultures” in official history and gazetteer from the existing historical records of Qin Dynasty in ancient China until the present before we investigate gazetteer of arts and cultures in Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties. Then, we comb out the records gathered in all previous postwar Chiayi and Taoyuan gazetteer compiling one by one to study their contents and structures, or to accurately master the compiling of arts and cultures gazetteer of Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties through analyzing citied materials, chart rules, collected number of people and compiling team members in order to make reasonable statements for the features and values of gazetteer of arts and cultures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. This chapter investigates three sections respectively in “Definitions of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Chronicles”, “Contents and Structures of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties”, “Feature and Values of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. Chapter VII is Conclusion. Three sections include “Research of Gazetteer”, “The Meaning of Gazetteer History in Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County” and “Response and Innovation of Gazetteer Compiling” to summarize the research results of this study and to propose suggestions as references of gazetteer compiling afterwards to make it more perfect.