Historical Writing and Cultural Memory in Chūnqiū and Zhànguó Period

• Main Authors: YING-YING TSAI, 蔡瑩瑩
• Other Authors: 李隆獻
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m4q9uh

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 107 === On the topics of historical narrative and cultural memory in early China, this dissertation analyzed the authorship, forms, and narratives of historiography through transmitted and excavated texts, as well as the citation, interpretation, debating about historical anecdotes in the essays of Pre-Qiń strategists and philosophers. Based on the materials, method and former research of early Chinese historical writing introduced in Chapter I, the main research consists of five chapters corresponding to three subtopics of the authors, the texts and the readers of the Chūnqiū and Zhànguó historiography. Firstly, chapter II investigated three distinct types of historiographer: the historian family, the recorders of divination, and the‘heroic historian’; and indicated the latent conflict between ritual and rhetoric revealed in the ‘narrative of historiographers’. Also, applying the idea of ‘author-function’, this dissertation argued that despite the decreasing status and power, the historiographers gain the initial ‘author’ image by defencing their writing. Secondly, chapter III to V analyzed the genre and narrative of different historiography. Chapter III examined and compared the chronological forms in the transmitted and excavated texts, as well as the issue of cultural memory and identity politics implied in the chronological orders. Approaching by the case study of the ‘Jin conquered the Yu and Guo’, chapter IV observed how single anecdote display diverse utilities and meanings when it compiled into ‘records of the event’ and ‘records of discourse’, which traditionally composed the main category of Chinese historiography. Continuing the observation of structure and narrative, chapter V compared the dissimilar compilation, viewpoint, and historical interpretation represented in the ‘conflicts of Wú and Yuè’ of Zuǒzhuàn, Guóyǔ, and the Qinghuá Bamboo Slips respectively. Thirdly, chapter VI considered the aspect of the reader who recited, reused and even reformed historical anecdotes. By discussing the creative interpretation and the reflectivity toward history embodied in the discourses of the Zhànguó strategists and philosophers, this study deliberated on the feature and forming of cultural memory of ancient Chinese intellectuals.