Historiography and narrative construction of the Five Dynasties period (907-960) in the Zizhi tongjian and its sources

dc.contributor.advisor	Lippiello, Tiziana
dc.contributor.advisor	Ess, Hans van
dc.contributor.author	Barenghi, Maddalena <1978>	it_IT
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-26T11:02:43Z
dc.date.issued	2014-03-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4654
dc.description.abstract	Please note: the version of my thesis available here is an outdated version that I handed in as part of my doctoral examination in November 2013. Please refer to the updated and revised edition published on the Munich University Library's (Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München) theses server in March 2017. It is available under the following link: <https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20635/>.	it_IT
dc.description.abstract	The Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Guide for Aid in Government) is the largest comprehensive annals of the history of the empire prior to 1000 A.D.. Conceived as a historical-political guide for aid in governance, the comprehensive annals aimed at describing in detail the complexity of historical processes. The chronological framework established by its author, Sima Guang (1019-86), provides relevance to the representation of the events of the Five Dynasties period (907-960), presenting them as the closure of a story of the rise and decline of the dynasties before the Song. This thesis investigates the process of constructing this last historical segment with a focus on the work of selection of the sources and the construction of the narrative discourses concerning two of the five northern dynasties of the early tenth century, the Later Tang (923-936) and Later Jin (936-946), and their strategies in dealing with the rising power of the Qidan-led Liao dynasty (907-1125).	it_IT
dc.language.iso	eng	it_IT
dc.publisher	Università Ca' Foscari Venezia	it
dc.rights	© Maddalena Barenghi, 2014	it_IT
dc.subject	Zizhi tongjian	it_IT
dc.subject	Sima Guang	it_IT
dc.subject	Historiography	it_IT
dc.subject	Annals	it_IT
dc.title	Historiography and narrative construction of the Five Dynasties period (907-960) in the Zizhi tongjian and its sources	it_IT
dc.type	Doctoral Thesis	en
dc.degree.name	Lingue, culture e societa'	it_IT
dc.degree.level	Dottorato di ricerca	it
dc.degree.grantor	Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società	it_IT
dc.description.academicyear	2014	it_IT
dc.description.cycle	26	it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator	Squarcini, Federico
dc.location.shelfmark	D001371	it
dc.location	Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato	it
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess	it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno	955781	it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber	V, 216 p.	it_IT
dc.subject.miur	L-OR/21 LINGUE E LETTERATURE DELLA CINA E DELL'ASIA SUD-ORIENTALE	it_IT
dc.description.note	Co-tutela con la Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität di Monaco	it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent	Table of Contents Chronology iv Introduction 1 Writing Historical Guides for Proper Government in the Eleventh Century 1 Chronological Framework of the Zizhi tongjian 11 Structure of the Annals…………………………………………………………………15 Lessons from a Period of Disunity……………………………………………………22 Recent Scholarship……………………………………………………………………..28 Abridgments……………………………………………………………………..32 Chapter One: The Zizhi tongjian and its Sources for the History of the Five Dynasties Period 39 1. Early Tenth-Century History Writing 40 1.1. The Liang Taizu shilu and the Da Liang bianyi lu 41 1.2. The Compilation Project under the Later Tang 43 1.3. The Compilation of Historical Records under the Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou dynasties 48 2. The Early Song Sources 52 2.1. The Wudai huiyao and the Wudai tonglu 52 2.2. The Jiu Wudai shi 54 3. Integrations of the Official Histories 58 4. The Xin Wudai shi. 59 Chapter Two: Flexible Narratives and the Zizhi tongjian kaoyi 65 1. Representation of the ‘Pact of Yunzhou’ Between the King of Jin and A Baoji 66 1.1.Early Accounts 67 1.2.The Account of the Biography of Foreign Countries 73 1.3.The Praise for Li Keyong: Narrative in the Wudai shi quewen 76 1.4.The Appendix of the Four Barbarians 78 1.5.The Account in the Zizhi tongjian 80 1.6. Concluding Remarks 81 2. Different Portrayal of the Enthronement of Li Cunxu and the Tang legacy 83 2.1.The Representation in Early Sources 84 2.2. The Wudai shi quewen, Xin Wudai shi and Luozhong jiyi Accounts 89 2.3. The Zizhi tongjian Account 92 3. The ‘Events of Weizhou’ and the Exile of Li Conghou 95 3.1. Early Accounts 95 3.2.The Jiu Wudai shi Account 98 3.3.The Xin Wudai shi Account 103 3.4.The Zizhi tongjian Account 105 3.5.Concluding Remarks 106 Chapter Three: Uprising and Defeat: Narrative Discourses of the Rise and Fall of the Later Jin 110 1. The Origins of the Shi Surname and the Prophecies of the Uprising 112 1.2.The Account in the Jiu Wudai shi 112 1.3.Representation in the Wudai shi quewen and Wudai shi bu 116 1.4.Representation in the Xin Wudai shi and Zizhi tongjian 117 2. The Uprising in the Song Sources. 120 2.1.Representation in the Xin Wudai shi 124 2.2.Representation in the Zizhi tongjian 126 3. The Role of Sang Weihan and the Decline of the Later Jin 141 3.1. Life and Early Career at the Court of Later Jin in the Song Sources 144 3.2. Sang Weihan and Foreign Policy: the Representation in the Zizhi tongjian 151 3.3. Chronicle of a Foretold Defeat 157 4. Concluding Remarks 162 Chapter Four: Family Clan and the System of Ancestral Temples 167 1.The System of Ancestral Temples from Han to Tang 168 2. Court Debates in the Early Tenth-Century 173 2.1.The Debate at the Court of the Later Tang According to the Wudai huiyao 174 2.2.The Zizhi tongjian Account 182 2.3. The Debate at the Court of the Later Jin According to the Wudai huiyao 189 2.4.The Zizhi tongjian Account 192 3. Concluding Remarks 197 Conclusion 200 Bibliography 213	it_IT
dc.degree.discipline	Storiografia	it_IT