| 英文摘要 |
Zheng Wenbao 鄭文寶 (953-1013), an official of the Southern Tang who accompanying his ruler Li Yu 李煜 (937-978) surrendered to the Song Dynasty in 975, wrote two books—Recent Matters of the Southern Tang 南唐 近事 in his early twenties and Records of the Southern Tang 江表志 in his late fifties. By comparing the differences in the narratives of these two works, this article argues that a ''survivor'' 遺民 of a defeated dynasty would not necessarily attempt to eulogize it, but could adopt a critical attitude toward its history, rulers and ministers as the writer's identity was being complicated by his experiences of the new regime. This article also discusses the conceptual framework and writing strategies which Zheng Wenbao developed in Records of the Southern Tang to revise Recent Matters of the Southern Tang and respond to other existing records and opinions about the Southern Tang. Supplanting his earlier idea that humans could do little as all was determined by destiny, he attributed the fall of the Southern Tang to human decisions and held its rulers and ministers accountable. |