淝水之战:初唐史家们的虚构?——对迈克尔·罗杰斯用后现代方法解构中国官修正史个案的解构

The Battle of Feishui: a Story Fabricated by the Historians of Early Tang?

美国史学家迈克尔·罗杰斯在《苻坚载记:正史的一个案例》中,运用后现代的分析方法,对《晋书》中的《苻坚载记》进行了系统的解构。指出其叙述的并非前秦的真实历史,而是运用了神话、想像与虚构的手法,折射了唐太宗时期的历史与隋炀帝时期的历史;进而否定淝水之战为真实的历史,把它看成是初唐史家们用事实与想像混合而编成的一个虚构的故事。本文在介绍罗杰斯论史方法的前提下,对其进行了质疑与批评,指出其论史方法虽新颖,但其结论却是荒诞不经的。

Michael C. Rogers took the postmodernist approach to deconstruct systematically 'The Chronicle of Fu Chien' in History of Jin in his book The Chronicle of Fu Chien: a Case of Exemplar History. He strengthened that 'The Chronicle of Fu Chien' mirrored the history of Emperor Sui Yangdi and Emperor Tang Taizong periods by myths, imagination and fabricated stories rather than the real history of Pre-Qin dynasty. Moreover, he regarded the Battle of Feishui as a fictitious story made by the early Tang historians with some parts of event and imaginative details. The author points out that Rogers's conclusion is wrong and ridiculous but his approach is useful, and worthy to introduce.