New Book Of Tang Traitor Pass And The Struggle Within The Ruling Class In The Tang Dynasty

Through research of political history and combination of the theory of promulgation and textual research, this paper discusses relation of doings of treacherous court official in Biography of Treacherous Court Official in XIN TANG SHU, and civil contradiction in monarch class and reveals the subjective inclination of treacherous court official's story. The author thinks that, emphasizing excessively on treacherous court official's stains in political ethic and personality but neglecting the external political struggle, XIN TANG SHU makes a personal, wrong judgment on the behavior of treacherous court official when recording the story of them.In part 1, explicating teacher LU SI-MIAN's discourse upon party struggle in Tang dynasty and from the thesis that "struggle is pervasive in monarch class", the paper analyzes the interest conflict in the monarch class on which treacherous court official depends and power struggle between treacherous court officials and their political opponents. The author believes doing of treacherous court official is in fact the exterior form of conflict in monarch class, and the struggle is in fact indifferent right and wrong too.However, recordation of XIN TANG SHU has a strong inclination of appraise. In part 2, the author reveals influence of prejudice when people come to know thing and point out that, because of prejudice, XIN TANG SHU emphasizes the stain of treacherous court official in political ethic and individual character and is inequitable and personal in material choice, narration and evaluation when recording story of inequitable.Combination the research of political history and the research of historical material can help us to understand history more impersonally than ever, and treat the old material and narration and comment of history by a new and prudent sight.