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

我的博士论文对10世纪和11世纪的拜占庭和中国的编纂文献进行了详细的跨文化比较研究。横跨欧亚大陆的两大帝国体系为了巩固自己的帝国地位、权威和治理能力，选择了相似的道路，并在这些文学和法律的著作中投入了大量的精力和人力。本文考察了编纂作为一种编辑手段是如何被用来收集特定知识的，以及选本、法律的文本等编纂文献是如何与这一时期拜占庭人和宋人的宫廷生活和政治生涯发生互动的。本文进一步评述了10世纪和11世纪欧亚大陆两端自发发生的文本摘编历史现象，认为这是两种不同帝国经历中的一种历史共时性的交汇点。对这两种文化的相互研究，其不同的来源代表了两种不同但共鸣的政治现实，以及这两种传统如何管理知识，将有助于我们理解和说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新的研究范围。

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.