| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 中國文學系 === 101 === Abstract
This thesis centers on the mysterious experiences of the elite as recorded in Hong Mai’s Yijian zhi, examining how Hong depicted these experiences and how they differed from the anomaly tales of earlier dynasties. It moreover investigates the different types of mysterious experiences of the elite, their meanings, as well as their social significance.
The introduction lays out the thesis’ research methodology and provides an overview of previous scholarship. The second chapter describes the historical development of anomaly tales through different dynasties in order to shed light on how anomaly tales in the Six Dynasties (222-589A.D.) influenced the writing of anomaly tales in the Song Dynasty. Through a close analysis of Hong Mai’s intentions and writing strategy, this chapter discusses his ideal regarding the need to authenticate the reliability of the source material he collected. In addition, this chapter also investigates how scholars viewed the Yijian zhi in the Song Dynasty and later periods. In the third chapter, people’s concepts of ghosts and deities in the Song Dynasty are examined. This examination serves as the threshold to help further probe the mysterious experiences that Hong Mai described between elites and ghosts and spirits. This chapter also analyzes the comments found at the end of the stories and views them as a window for understanding Hong’s writing strategies. The fourth chapter examines nearly three thousand stories from the Yijian zhi that fit under the category of mysterious experiences. These stories are further categorized according to their content, and investigated in order to uncover how they reflect various aspects of elite society. The last chapter concludes that Hong’s anomaly tales clearly reflect his ideal of authenticating the reliability of his sources. His comments on the stories are intended to bolster their credibility. These stories also provide us with a glimpse into how elites viewed mysterious experiences during the Song Dynasty.
Key Words: Hong Mai, Yijian zhi, the elites, anomaly tales
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