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Under the prosperous historiography and flourishing yanshi 言事 cultural background, Jingushi 進故事is the characteristic of jingyan 經筵 (the lectures for emperors) in Song Dynasty. In accordance with the regulations, the format of this form is divided into two parts including quoting stories and discoursing while the content has to be combined with governing the country. Being the textbook of historical education in the beginning, this form has become an exceptional text of “demonstrating politics by history” and the best representation of “ancient and modern capital rule” concept because the writers more or less expressed their opinion to the sovereignty of the time by choosing and judging historical incidents. Liu Kezhuang (1187-1269) regarded Jingushi as the work which was finished during his three times employment of the royal court after the age of 60 which showed distinguishing creation with his fairly extensive historical knowledge. Jingushi reflected Liu Kezhuang’s high reputation of prose and historiography to a certain extent, however, this achievement has been disregard by contemporaries who focus on the research of “jianghu shipai 江湖詩派 (Jianghu Poetic School)” and “xinpai ciren 辛派詞人 (Poets of Xinqiji’s Group)” under the framework of history literature development. Liu Kezhuang considerably insinuated government affairs of the time and through his works, his political position toward controversial issues was fairly apparent, and some of the issues were even closely related to his eunuch life. In view of the abundance and representative of Liu Kezhuang’s Jingushi and his high reputation of literary arena of late Song Dynasty, this thesis chooses Liu Kezhuang as an individual case of Jingushi and analyze thorough the content of Jingushi, combined with current politics of the time. Chapter 1 of this thesis is Introduction; Chapter 2 arranges the development of the story, including its background, policy, character of the text, availability, and common themes; Chapter 3 chooses representative Jingushi writers of Song Dynasty and introduces the basic form and development trend of Jingushi from diachronic angles. Chapter 4and 5 chooses Liu Kezhuang as an individual case of Jingushi and discusses its content and writing technique combinding with current politics of the time, analyzes its possible main ideas and distinguishing features of writing. Chapter 6 is Conclusion. Through this research, establishing the general development of Jingushi of Song Dynasty has been expected, and this research provides fresh observing angles to jingyan, historical comments, political comments, historiography, and individual literati. On the other hand, this research also aims to renew the lackness of Liu Kezhuang’s proses and experiences during the employment of the royal court, and to deliberate his achievement and historical position of literature of late Song Dynasty. |