英文摘要 |
Scholars have quite different views towards the spread of the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian 史記) in the Western Han Dynasty and a record that appears in many works, “Shi Pian You Lu Wu Shu (There are ten chapters in the Shiji that are only recorded in the catalog but have no content 十篇有錄 無書),” resulting in an ongoing debate. This paper reexamines this issue by investigating the content and style of the Hanshu Yiwenzhi (“the Treatise on Literature” 藝文志 of the Book of Han 漢書). As a result, this paper claims that “You Lu” does not refer to the catalog compiled by Liu Xiang (劉向, 77-6 BC), since mainstream version of Shiji had already had such a situation of “Shi Pian You Lu Wu Shu” before Liu's work. This paper contributes to the reflection on the basic concept of Chinese philology and the nature of early literature. |