Uncovering the history of the Predynastic Kitan: The historical memory of Dynasties of Northern Descent from a polity perspective
Uncovering the history of the Predynastic Kitan: The historical memory of Dynasties of Northern Descent from a polity perspective
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揭开前王朝基坦的历史：政体视角下北朝王朝的历史记忆
DOI：
10.1080/00094633.2022.2079314
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发表时间：
2022
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0.1
通讯作者：
Runbo M
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Runbo M
辽朝官方叙述与中原相关史料对前王朝契丹历史的记载，无论在时间上还是空间上都存在重大矛盾。这些相互矛盾的说法背后隐藏着一个至今鲜为人知的历史事实：阿保机的祖先是契丹的新来者，在唐朝开元年间才出现。而一旦他们取代了以前的契丹部落并建立了国家，他们就使他们单一家族的历史成为了整个民族的历史。这段历史与吉丹过去五百年左右的实际变化过程有很大的出入。从政治角度来看，没有一个家族是一个民族天生的统治者，但一旦他们获得了最高权力地位，他们往往会将自己家族的历史打扮成整个民族的历史。通过揭示统治家族的历史与民族的历史之间的差异和分歧，我们对北朝历史记忆的重新评价具有普遍的适用性。
There are significant conflicting accounts of the history of the Predynastic Kitan in the official narrative of the Liao dynasty and the related historical materials from the Central Plains, both in terms of the time and space. Behind these conflicting accounts lies an hitherto rarely understood historical reality: Abaoji's ancestors were newcomers to the Kitan having only arrived on the scene in the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty. And once they had replaced the former Kitan tribes and established a state, they made the history of their single family the history of the entire people. This history diverged enormously from the actual process of change for the Kitan over the previous 500 or so years. Approaching from a polity-based perspective, no single family has ever been the natural born rulers of a people, however once they have attained the highest position of power they tend to dress up the history of their own family as that of an entire people. By uncovering the differences and divisions between the history of a ruling family and the history of a people, our reappraisal of the historical memory of the Dynasties of Northern Descent has a universal application.