System Of The Tang Dynasty Eunuch Powers Resolution

The eunuchs'political influence was a phenomenon in Tang dynasty China. As for the Zizhitongjian[资治通鉴)has been published, which means for almost a thousand years, the Chinese scholars defined the eunuchs as an origin of the corruption. Some decades of these years, a few scholars begun to realized that the eunuchs made some positive movements on political in Tang dynasty China, but there are much less scholars focused on the eunuchs'institution, especially as the core of the inner court(内廷).The dissertation indicates that the eunuchs'institution was a part of the bureaucracy of the Tang dynasty China, using more inscriptions(墓志) and a piece of Dunhuang manuscript Jishibeiyao(记室备要)than the traditional history books such as Jiutangshu(旧唐书)and Zizhitongjian(资治通鉴)to proving that.According to the Zhouli(周礼),the eunuchs has been became a part of the formal members of the bureaucracy of China. And the phenomenon has prolonged to Tang dynasty. Form the Xihan dynasty(西汉),such eunuchs as Secretariat-Chancellery(中书谒者令)has increase their political power and influence whether in the bureaucracy of government or the inner court. And to the Donghan dynasty(东汉),Palace Attendant-in-ordinary(中常侍)has been seen as a reasonable part of the empire institution, begun to infiltrated the inner court and bearing the transmission of the emperor's orders. The most important thing is that the eunuchs were to become a reasonable part of the bureaucracy of the empire.As for the Tang dynasty, the eunuchs have some new characters which are bardly different from Han dynasty. The personnel rank was much more complicated than any dynasty among the Chinese history, which means the combine of the personnel rank and job classification was very important. And this was a clue all through the bureaucracy of Tang dynasty. At the early time of the Tang dynasty, the personnel rank and job classification system was relatively strict, so regularly as to the eunuchs. At the middle age of Tang dynasty, accompanying with the increasing power of the prime minister(宰相)such as Li Fuguo(李辅国),Yang Guozhong(杨国忠),the eunuchs'power has reached their first top point. At the late Tang dynasty, the eunuchs in high positions had attempted to perpetuate their political power in a family context. Above all, the eunuchs'characters has fit in with the bureaucracy of Tang dynasty, but some unique such as military power and family context were different from the age before the Tang dynasty.The next clue is the Dunhuang manuscript Jishibeiyao(记室备要),It shows that there were at least 19 eunuchs'Commissioners(使职)in late Tang dynasty. And the list of eunuchs'Commissioners was some sort of particular patterns. Proving that the personnel rank and job classification system is matched with this particular pattern. And there are some connections between the Palace Commandant-protector(神策中尉)and Metropolitan Governor(京兆尹),and according to the personnel rank and job classification system, the army supervisor(监军使)has its own grades, its another new conclusion in the dissertation. At he base of proving the list of eunuchs Commissioner(使职)is matched with the personnel rank and job classification system, it is interesting that to debate some eunuchs'Commissioner(使职)in Tang dynasty, which include the Military Affairs Commissioners (枢密使), Recipient of Edicts In The Bureau of Military Affairs (西院直公), commissioners of Hanlin Academy(翰林院使),commissioners of awaiting instructions Academy(学士院使), commissioners of Court Ceremonial Institute(宣徽使), They all have their own characters, for instance, prime officer(长官)is a specific word to the Military Affairs Commissioners(枢密使),due to the identity of the writer of Jishibeiyao.To take a long story to short, the dissertation indicates that the eunuchs' political is a reasonable part of the bureaucracy of Tang dynasty; it could matched with the personnel rank and job classification system; and in other words, the eunuchs' political was a reflection of the political system of Tang dynasty; and proving something new theory and ideas of the function rules between the inner court and the bureaucracy of Tang dynasty...