Song Dynasty Specialized Records Management Study

The Archives management of Song Dynasty made unprecedented achievements and reached a high standard. In Song Dynasty, the dominating idea of "governing the regime by intellects" resulted in a complicated construction made up of various types of archives. Among those achieves, those types regarding taxes and services, finance and accounting, legislation, lawsuit and court have been managed with self-improving systematical measures. Guided by dialectic materialism and historic materialism and based on the previous research of scholars and theories and principles of History, Archive and other disciplines, this dissertation firstly analyses the historical background which contributed to the formation of special archives and then classified the types and contents of selected special archives. It also summarized the solutions to manage selected special archives and revealed the value of using both the concepts and practices of Song dynasty's special archive management solutions as references to improve contemporary archives management. This article consists of six parts.Part one focused on the features of Song Dynasty Archives. This part stated the historical development of song dynasty archive work and listed distinguish achievements including the liege idea, characteristic solutions, room, cabinet and shelve method and systematic legislation. It was those achievements that explained the development of special archive solutions.Part two started with a special archive type for taxes and services. This part introduced the taxes and services of Song Dynasty in details and pointed out the fraudulent facts when some officials tried to figure for self-interests by amending or hiding archives while they were on duty. In order to effectively collect taxes and allocate services, the governors of Song dynasty were very concerned about the archive management of this type. Subsequently, important archives like residence book, taxes and rent account, population record, and the civil administration units named Bao and Jia and also paper money and public vouchers had been gradually out into use. Meanwhile, systematic archive management solutions were...