Knowledge Management at the Imperial Court: Compilation Literature in Tenth and Eleventh Century Byzantium and China

我的博士论文对十世纪和十一世纪拜占庭时期和中国时期的编纂文献进行了详细的跨文化比较研究。横跨欧亚大陆的两个皇室制度选择了类似的方式来加强他们的皇室地位、权威和治理能力，在这些文学和法律作品上投入了大量的精力和人力。本文考察了汇编作为一种编辑方法如何被用来收集特定的知识，以及汇编文献如选集和法律文本是如何与这一时期拜占庭人和宋代中国人的宫廷生活和政治生涯产生互动的。本文进一步评论了十世纪和十一世纪欧亚大陆两端自发发生的文本摘编的历史现象，认为这是一种历史同步性的交汇点，嵌入了两种不同的帝国经历。对这两种文化的不同来源提出了两种不同但引起共鸣的政治现实，以及这两种传统是如何管理知识的，对这两种文化进行相互研究，将有助于我们理解和谈论关于中世纪欧亚世界的一些新事物，为古典主义者、中世纪主义者、拜占庭主义者和汉学家提供一个新的研究拓展。

My doctoral thesis presents a detailed cross-cultural and comparative study of the compilation literature in the tenth and eleventh-century Byzantium and China. The two imperial systems across Eurasian Continent chose a similar way to strengthen their imperial standings, authority, and governance ability, having invested great energy and manpower in these literary and legal works. This dissertation examines how compilation, as an editorial method, was used to collect specific knowledge and how the compilation literature such as anthologies and legal texts interacted with the court lives and political careers of the Byzantines and the Song Chinese during this period. This thesis further comments on the historical phenomenon of excerpting and compiling texts that spontaneously happened on both ends of the Eurasian Continent in the tenth and eleventh centuries, suggesting that it was a convergence point where a kind of historical synchronicity was embedded in two different imperial experiences. An inter-study of both cultures, whose diverse sources present two different yet resonated political realities, and how these two traditions managed knowledge, would help us understand and say some new things about the medieval Eurasian world, presenting a new research outreach for Classicists, Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Sinologist alike.