Confucian Sectarianism and the Compilation of the Ming History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15028080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Wilson (0000-0001-8363-4356, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 53-84 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Late imperial China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-3236 • E-ISSN: 1086-3257 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/late.1994.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2034635321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 14 |
As part of the ideological consolidation of empire, a new ruling house sum-moned hundreds of scholars to court to form a special History Commission (shiguan) to undertake the daunting responsibility of writing the true and definitive history of the previous dynasty (zhengshi). The guiding principles in deliberating upon the many unresolved controversies left by their predeces-sors often transcended the conventional historian's sense of truth as factual accuracy, for more fundamental political and moral considerations impinged upon the historians ' adjudication of the evidence. Few considerations shaped dynastic histories more profoundly than the goal of legitimating the newly es-tablished political and moral order, for, as both inheritors and vanquishers of the dynasty they chronicled, the court historians needed to justify the violent overthrow of an order that their sovereign wished to perpetuate. It is critical, therefore, to recognize that dynastic histories are something more than chron-icles of times past, for they can shed light on the ideological circumstances of their compilation
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2013 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |