Sound Transmission Through the Air: a Study of Donglin Discourse in the History Writing of the Qing Dynasty and Late Ming Dynasty
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In the minds of the world, the Donglin Party members mainly have a positive image of loyalty, uprightness, and majesty. Later generations generally have sympathy and admiration for them. This image of Donglin has its own process of formation, shaping, acceptance, dissemination and solidification. The late Ming Dynasty of Donglin's activities was naturally an important stage in this process. The general acceptance and dissemination of this image by officials and people in the Qing Dynasty not only inherited the existing tone of the late Ming Dynasty, but also inspired modern times. It influenced the modern and contemporary comments on Donglin, non-Donglin, and party disputes in the late Ming Dynasty. It is still in the ascendant today. The first part of this book mainly examines the many performances of Donglin people and their supporters in shaping and maintaining the image of Donglin in the late Ming Dynasty. The second part focuses on the writing situation and reasons of Donglin in the Qing revision of "History of the Ming Dynasty". "History of the Ming Dynasty" generally establishes a good biography of Dong Lin, and the characters who are opposed to Dong Lin are included in the "Biography of the Eunuch" and "The Biography of the Traitor", which represents the attitude towards the two parties and their fighting history in the late Ming Dynasty, and also greatly affected later generations' judgment on this issue. However, his acceptance and dissemination of Donglin's words were selective. On the one hand, he established a good reputation for Donglin in the mainstream and praised the noble character and loyal actions of some people in Donglin; on the other hand, there were often so-called "cadences" between the lines, criticizing Donglin's lectures and party-building behavior. This was mainly due to the fact that the Qing Dynasty made flexible use of the historical resource of Donglin based on its actual needs.
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