Genealogical Records in South China: with a Focus on the Comparison of Printed and Hand-written Texts

华南家谱：以印刷文本与手写文本的比较为中心

基本信息

批准号：
13021206
负责人：
SEGAWA Masahisa
金额：
$ 4.74万
依托单位：
Tohoku University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
财政年份：
2001
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2001 至 2004
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The main purpose of this research is to show how diverse the genealogical records kept by lineages and clans in South China in their social functions, and also to understand the background of this diversity, through the comparison of various types of genealogies collected in my field and library research in China and Japan. First, I compared the social function of hand-written genealogies and printed genealogies based on the materials collected in Guangdong and Hainan. Documents generally called zupu in Chinese contains many different types of genealogical records. It is common to all these hand-written genealogies that the social range of people who are included in document intends to be closed within themselves, not open for any remote nor fictive kin to build a new social tie. To the contrary, printed genealogies with many copies always have a function of creating new social ties and common identity through their compilation among those kinsmen who had little contact before. In the … More way of compiling genealogical records, we can find two alternative modes; to hand-write only one or two original copies, or to print a lot of copies at the same time. These two modes have coexisted in the same areas and in the same periods, and therefore we cannot explain them as a difference of local tradition nor a change in writing style. Neither we cannot reduce it to such a mere pragmatic factor as the difference in economic condition of the compilers. It is because each of these two modes of genealogical compilation has its own social function just **entioned above that both of them have been maintained through time in the same area. These two types of genealogical records roughly correspond to the lineage genealogies maintained in a specific local community and the clan genealogy shared by a wider range of people. But, at the same time I show that among the recent compilation boom of genealogy, these two levels of compilation activities are often related to each other and go on together. It seems that recent prosperous condition of local economy and the increased flow of people and information between South China homeland and Hong Kong or other overseas communities lead to more diversity in the style and nature of the genealogical records produced by lineages and clans. Less

本研究的主要目的是通过对本领域收集的各类家谱的比较，展示华南地区宗族和氏族所保存的遗传记录在其社会功能方面的多样性，并了解这种多样性的背景。首先，我根据在广东和海南收集的资料，比较了手写家谱和印刷家谱的社会功能。中文通常称为族谱，包含多种不同类型的家谱。所有这些手写的家谱都有一个共同点：记录在案的人的社会范围是封闭的，不向任何遥远的或虚构的亲属开放，以建立新的社会联系。多本的家谱总是具有通过在那些以前很少接触的亲属之间建立新的社会联系和共同身份的功能。一两个原版或同时印刷大量副本，这两种模式在同一地区、同一时期并存，因此我们不能将其解释为当地传统的差异，也不能将其解释为写作风格的变化。我们不能把它归结为编译者经济条件的差异这样一个纯粹的实用因素。正是因为这两种基因编译模式都有其各自的社会功能，所以它们都得以长期维持。在同一区域。家谱记录的类型大致对应于特定地方社区保存的世系谱系和更广泛人群共享的氏族谱系，但是，我同时表明，在最近的家谱编纂热潮中，这两个层次的编纂。看来，近年来当地经济的繁荣以及华南祖国与香港或其他海外社区之间的人员和信息流动的增加，使得活动的风格和性质更加多样化。遗传记录血统和氏族产生的较少。