Monographic Researches On The Catalogue Of Historical Annals In Qing Dynasty

Shizhi Catalogue,attached to history books is an important part of the bibliography.Therefore the style and length will be limited by the main part of the history books,because of which most of it are works' selections with the purpose of reflecting the academic development during a certain time.The catalogue includes official history,national history,political book,art and literature of local chronicles and history complementating catalogue.During Qing Dynasty,catalogue of historical annals stepped into a period of comprehensive development with high level of theory,practice and representativeness.This paper focuses on three monographic researches on the basis of official history,complementation of history and political book.The first monographic research focuses on the discussion about the success and failure of History of Ming Dynasty·Yiwen Records.The first part is a discussion about the process of its compilation.There are some doubts on the process of the former researches,which have been proved to be right and should be maintained.Then the author analyzes the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Ming Dynasty·Yiwen Records and finds out that there are still some deficiencies.The last part,which is the most important one in this section,is about how to realize the achievements of Ming Dynasty·Yiwen Records.The author puts forward that most of the former related researches,to some extents,neglected the academic standards,which needs to be further discussed and studied.The second monographic research is a discussion about the history complementating catalogue in Qing Dynasty which has been studied by the former researchers and is worth being further studied.The research,which is based on the nine works of Yao Zhenzong,Qian Dazhao and Zhang Zongyuan,explores from the aspects of compilation course,edition,sampling,style,value and deficiencies and some new perspectives are put forward.The research finds out that,in the aspect of edition,the master copy of Qian Dazhao's Supplement of History of Eastern Han Dynasty·Yiwen Records should be the edition of Zhaodai Collections,not Qian Dazhao 's block-printed edition and it also analyzes the relations between the two versions of Hou Kang's and Guangya Publishing House.After analyzing Zhang Zongyuan's original version of A Record of Classics in Sui Dynasty,the author finds five evidences proving that Zhang Zongyuan did only complete the history department which was unrevised.Finally,from the aspects of completeness,systematicness and accuracy,the evaluation of the merits and demerits of the five different versions are evaluated.The third monographic research is a study on catalogue of political book.During the period of Emperor Qianlong of Qing dynasty,four of the catalogue of the ancient political books were compiled.The former studies on this has received a wealth of results,but some of the conclusions were questionable.This study is focus on the following aspects:Firstly,on the basis of the former studies,the author proves that 75 historiographers were noticed and supplemented;there existed assistant reviser and official proofreading;and the closing time,reward and punishment measures of Sangtong Pavilion.Secondly,the completing time of the other five books is testified.Thirdly,the author corrects a misconception,the original block-printed editions are Wuyingdian Edition and books like The Booklist of Chinese Ancient Rare Books were finished during Qian Long period.The author proves with adequate evidences that it was not until Jia Qing period that the Wuyingdian Edition was finished.Fourthly,it was said that the catalogue of political books,such as Xu Tong Zhi,has been ignored because of its copy of The Catalogue of Imperial Collection of Four.But after analyzing,the author finds out that the two mentioned above are not the same version.The Catalogue of Imperial Collection of Four that Xutongzhi Yrwenlue followed is the version that was compiled during 47th year of Qian Long period.Some other findings in this paper are as follows:the establishment time of the catalogue of geographical palace in The Catalogue of Imperial Collection of Four should be at a time from February to July during 47th year of Qian Long period;the establishment time of the catalogue of historical events should be after July;and there were still significant adjustments to the aspects such as book description and classification after July.