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

我的博士论文详细介绍了十世纪和十一世纪拜占庭和中国的汇编文献的跨文化和比较研究。横跨欧亚大陆的两个帝国体系选择了类似的方式来加强他们的帝国地位、权威和治理能力，并在这些文学和法律作品上投入了大量的精力和人力。本文考察了作为一种编辑方法的汇编如何被用来收集特定的知识，以及汇编文献如文集和法律文本如何与这一时期拜占庭人和宋人的宫廷生活和政治生涯相互作用。本文进一步评论了10世纪和11世纪在欧亚大陆两端自发发生的文本摘录和编纂的历史现象，认为这是一个融合点，在两个不同的帝国经历中嵌入了一种历史同向性。这两种文化的不同来源呈现出两种不同但却产生共鸣的政治现实，对这两种文化的相互研究，以及这两种传统如何管理知识，将有助于我们理解和说出一些关于中世纪欧亚世界的新事物，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延伸。

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.