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The Strict Makeup of History: Interpreting the Historiography of the Southern Song Dynasty in the Shadow of Taoism

(us) Cai Hanmo

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The author of this book is an authentic American. This is a collection of essays on his research on the characters and documents of the Song Dynasty in China, including 7 articles and 1 book review. It was originally written in English and officially published in Western academic journals. Now it has been translated into Chinese after many efforts. The book uses the method of textual archeology - that is, in-depth analysis and study of the history of the generation, circulation and transformation of historical documents, and strives to restore the appearance of the documents themselves, restore the original true intentions of the authors of the documents and the process of tampering. In individual cases, it even establishes a chain of documents being continuously modified by later generations, exposing many historical truths, such as the merits and demerits of Qin Hui and Cai Jing, and the hidden story of the Jin people's capture of Bianjing. Through careful literature research, the author proves the credibility of historians' works such as Li Tao's "Xuzizhi Tongjian Changbian" and Li Xinchuan's "Daominglu". At the same time, it brings to the surface the fact that Zhu Xi and subsequent Taoists have tampered with historical documents. It is refreshing and gives people a subversive understanding of the history of the Song Dynasty in the 11th to 12th centuries.