The Empire On Papers

The research of history itself is sometimes actually comments on the historiography and history bibliography. My try concentrated on seeking the inter-dynamic relation between the standard history, then the whole official historiography and the ideology of the empire.This thesis was divided into two parts:First part analyzed the ideology signification of the forming of standard history system and the configuration of standard history style on the base of the Semiology theory. Above all, in this part, I reveal that the concept of STANDAD HISTORY has two points after the particular reviewing it. The first point is it is a style, in which the empire history books are written, so called annals-biography. This style normally contains two to four mutually complementary standard divisions which are the imperial (sometimes not) annals, the tables (not necessary), the treatises, and the Memories mostly consisting of biographies of ministers or common people up to some standards. The second point is the special appellation of some texts of the empire history in anna&biography style which were licenced by the emperors or the empires. On the base of twenty-four histories belonging to the second point of standard histories, we thought the ideology signification was the standard history had made empire be text, and it was also the deification of the empire and the history of empire. Then, through quoting and analyzing one linguistics relevant text, we looked for the thinking foundation of the deification processes.Second part, we studied the obvious processes of deification. They were the ceremonies in the official historiography actions. We took example for the submitting ritual of Veritable Records. In this part, we had introduced relevant theories and studies of ritual at first, and then restored the submitting ritual of Veritable Records of Gaozong of Qing Dynasty. We pointed out in this ritual, the ex-emperor obtained finally deity and realized real long live. Meanwhile, the history of the ex-emperor period was deified. And, the heir emperor got the absolute authority, too.After these two parts, we conclude that classical history was classical country political science. The end of classical era means the death of classical history. In order to make our conclusion be affirmed, we investigated further a little the relation between history and political science. At last, we had drawn one unexpected conclusion, which was the historiography/history had already been in grievous crisis because that modern bodies politic has not sustained historiography, because that other subjects has nibbled the demesne of history, and because that history writings already have become boring during the Scientific Processing and hence history and historian have lost the authority of appraising people or affairs.