TY - BOOK ID - 68901188 TI - The making of Song dynasty history PY - 2021 SN - 1108834833 9781108834834 9781108877176 9781108819992 110889027X 1108883206 1108877176 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Historiography. KW - Song Dynasty (China). KW - 960-1279. KW - China KW - China. KW - History KW - Historiography KW - Sources KW - S04/0200 KW - S04/0650 KW - China: History--Historiography and theory of history KW - China: History--Song, Liao, Jin: 960 - 1278 KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68901188 AB - In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history, Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960-1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from these sources as products of Song political discourse, Hartman offers a thorough introduction to the texts and the political circumstances surrounding their compilation. Distilling from these sources a 'grand allegory of Song history', he argues that the narratives embedded within reflect tension between a Confucian model of political institutionalism and the Song court's preference for a non-sectarian, technocratic model. Fundamentally rethinking the corpus of texts that have formed the basis of our understanding of the Song and of imperial China more broadly, this far-reaching account of historiographical process and knowledge production illuminates the relationship between official history writing and political struggle in China. ER -