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The Resurrection and Legitimization of the Shu Han Kingdom Before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Simon Shen East Asian History NUMBER 25/26 . JUNE/DECEMBER 2003 Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University Editor Geremie R. Barme Associate Editor Helen Lo Editorial Board Mark Elvin (Convenor) B0rge Bakken John Clark Louise Edwards Colin Jeffcott W. J. F. Jenner Li Tana Kam Louie Gavan McCormack David Marr Tessa Morris-Suzuki Kenneth Wells Design and Production Helen Lo, Oanh Collins, Marion Weeks, Tristan Norman Business Manager Marion Weeks Printed by Goanna Print, Fyshwick, ACT This is the combined twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth issue of East Asian History, printed in December 2004, in the series previously entitled Papers on Far Eastern History. An externally refereed journal, it is published twice a year Contributions to The Editor, East Asian History Division of Pacificand Asian History Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Phone +61 26125 3140 Fax +61 26125 5525 Email [email protected] Subscription Enquiries to Subscriptions, East Asian History, at the above address, or to [email protected] Annual Subscription Australia A$50 (including GST) Overseas US$45 (GST free) (for two issues) ISSN 1036-6008 iii � CONTENTS 1 The Origins of Han-Dynasty Consort Kin Power Brett Hinsch 25 Inventing the Romantic Kingdom: the Resurrection and Legitimization of the Shu Han Kingdom before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Simon Shen 43 Illusions of Grandeur: Perceptions of Status and Wealth in Late-Ming Female Clothing and Ornamentation SarahDaun cey 69 The Legal and Social Status of Theatrical Performers in Beijing during the Qing Ye Xiaoqing 85 In the Tang Mountains We Have a Big House Michael Wi lliams 113 The Eve of Park's Military Rule: the Intellectual Debate on National Reconstruction, 1960-6 1 Kim Hyung-A 141 Japanese Orphans from China: History and Identity in a 'Returning' Migrant Community LiNarangoa 161 Sun-Facing Courtyards: Urban Communal Culture in Mid-1970s' Shanghai Nicole Huang 183 Liu Dong and his Defence of Theory and Confucianism as Practice GloriaDavies 191 The Weberian View and Confucianism LiuDong -translated by Gloria Davies iv Cover calligraphy Yan Zhenqing ,ID'j1�gHn, Tang calligrapher and statesman Cover illustration A memorial from the chief eunuch Bian Dekui - "The Legal and Social Status of Theatrical Performers in Beijing During the Qing" by Ye Xiaoqing, see p.81. INVENTING THE ROMANTIC KINGDOM: THE RESURRECTION AND LEGITIMIZATION OF THE SHU HAN KINGDOM BEFORE THE ROMANCE OF THE THREEKINGDOMS Jt Simon Shen 1Xf@B&! o so vast, 0 so mighty, The Great River rolls to sea, Flowers do waves thrash, Heroes do sands smash, When all the dreams drain, Same are lose and gain. -Luo Guanzhong iillfq:r,Romance a/the Three Kingdoms -=���1 When the decline of the Roman Empire began after the second century, the 1 Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the three demise of Rome's counterpart in the East, the Han il dynasty of China (206 kingdoms, trans. C. H. Brewitt Taylor (Tokyo: 2 C. E. Tuttle, 1959), "Overture: the Beginning BC-AD 9; AD 25-220), was already well into its final stage. Troubled fo r dec­ Song." ades by land annexations, palace rivalries and eunuch politics, the central 2 The Han dynasty is divided into two periods: government of the Eastern Han gradually lost effective control over its ter­ the Western Han ggyJ (206 Be-AD 9) and ritories after the Yellow Turban Rebellion jtrtJ.z. �L in AD 184. Despite the the Eastern Han j:j!:1J (AD 25-220), with an efforts of Cao Cao l!l!Hf, the military ruler of the Han, to hold together some interlude of the Xin ;\iff dynasty (AD 9-23) in between. semblance of a united realm, dozens of warlords still competed for land and 3 The officialname of the kingdom was "Wei," resources. After the Battle of Red Cliff #�.z.� in AD 208, only three rivals but in order to distinguish it from other regimes remained, including Cao of the central government, and the joint winners named "Wei," sometimes it is conventionally of the battle, Liu Bei �Uf;i and Sun Quan tMI. When Cao died in AD 220, known as the "Cao-Wei 'ilrft kingdom." his son Cao Pi 1f/f overthrew the Eastern Han dynasty and established the We i ft kingdom.3 With the establishment of the Shu Han IJil kingdom 25 26 SIMON SHEN (AD 221-63)4 by Liu and subsequently the Wu � Map! kingdom (AD 222-80) by Sun, the well-known Location of the Shu Han kingdom in the Era of the Three Kingdoms Era ofThree Kingdoms -=: �1f-f1� (c. AD 220-65) (roughlyAD 2205) (Eo Yang, Zhongguo ren shi gang) began (see Map 1)5 Each of the three kingdoms had vivid char­ acteristics: We i was situated in the north-central region, the heartland of the Han predecessors, with superior military strength; Shu Han, despite having the smallest territory among the three, claimed its ancestry from the Han dynasty and was antagonistic toward We i; Wu, in contrast, was more like a purely regional regime that had evidently little ambition to conquer the whole of China.6 None of the three kingdoms were pow­ erful enough to conquer one another, and they were ultimately replaced by the Western Jin [§ if dynasty (AD 265-316) within decades of their foundation.7 Of the three kingdoms, Shu Han attracts the most attention from historians as well as the Chinese populace. Denigrated as bandits (zei �) by the dominant Wei regime,S Liu Bei and his followers are surprisingly known as heroes, or lesser-gods, to most Chinese people today with Liu himself portrayed as the benevolent leader, 4 Similar to that of Wei, the formal name of general Guanyu �3J3J as the god of war, and chancellor Zhuge Liang �� the regime was "Han." However, in order to % the symbol of the intelligent and resourceful minister. The transformation distinguish it from the unified Han dynasty, of the Shu Han leaders from bandits to heroes is not an historical accident. Liu Bei's regime is known as the Shu Han kingdom, and this is the name that will be Without exaggeration, the long-term myth-making process has lasted almost used in this article (Shu;] being the archaic two millennia and continues even today, with the kingdom assigned four name for the region it controlled-the Sichuan principal attributes: stability in a chaotic world; legitimate descent from the ggJlI basin) glorious Han dynasty; a regime ruled by charismatic, benevolent, righteous 5 The rulers of the three kingdoms in fact all and intelligent leaders; and finally, an archaic political Utopia by contrast claimed the title of emperor � m. However, because none was qualifiedto establish a real with which present-day Chinese can reflect their disapproval of contempor­ "empire" in a divided China, their regimes are ary regimes. still conventionally known as "kingdoms" 3: � 6 Despite intermittent attempts to attack the lof the Wei chancellor Sima Yi RJ,\f!,lii. Sima lin lakes." Sima Guang, Zi zhi tangjian, year Wei border, the Wu kingdom was mainly Yan's father, Sima Zhao "l,\f!,fP,j, conquered 227, entry 4 (translation by the author) AD concerned about the development of southeast the Shu Han kingdom in 263; he himself 9 Chen wrote the book during the We stern Jin China rather than focusing on its two rivals. For replaced the Wei ruler in AD 265 and founded dynasty, when he served as a court official. example, the kingdom sent an expedition to Jin; then he finally captured the Wu kingdom Generally it appears to be an objective source explore present-day Taiwan in AD 230 without in AD 280 and briefly reunified China. recording most contemporary historic events. targeting the territories of We i or Shu Han. Sima 8 The Wei kingdom viewed both the other two However, some possible biases owing to Chen's Guang, Zizhi tangjian [Comprehensive mirror kingdoms as usurpers, and described them as official position will be mentioned in later sec­ for aid in governmentl (Taiwan: Commercial "bandits" in official documents. For instance, tions. Chen Shou, San guo zhi [History of the Publishing, 1966), year 230, entry 1. in AD 227 Sun Zi J%�, a Wei official, told his three kingdoms], ed. Chen Naiqian (Beijing: 7 Sima Yan "l,\f!,�,the founding emperor of ruler that "the Shu Han bandits could only hide China Bookstall, 1959) the We stern Jin dynasty, was the grandson I in mountains; the Wu bandits could only hide I INVENTING THE ROMANTIC KINGDOM 27 Juxtaposed with historical accounts recorded from primary sources, par­ 12 Zhou Dahuang JiID:*:Jl'L, Fan San guo yan ticularly Chen Shou's �*. biographical history San guo zhi -=-�"ii;t (History yi [Reverse of Romance of the Three Kingdoms] (Taiwan: Chit Yau Publishing, 1996). oj the Three Kingdoms)9 and Sima Guang's '§'] ;�* chronicle Zi zhi tongjian �1il�ii10 (Comprehensive Mirror jor Aid in Government), 11 the favourable attitude of the Chinese people toward the Shu Han kingdom is paradoxi­ cal-the truths largely contradicting the Utopian image of the kingdom. For, like many of its Sichuanese predecessors and successors, the Shu Han king­ dom was merely a short-lived, small, regional regime in the remote Chinese past without a Significant cultural or economic legacy. Like many regimes in a divided, chaotic world, the kingdom was also established by Machiavellian strategies and developed a warlike posture that Figures 1 (and 2 and 3 overleaf) resulted in limited indigenous support. As revealed by historical evidence, the Shu Han image Romanticized images of Shu Han leaders in their extreme versions in Zhou Dayong, Fan San guo yan indeed went through a process of romanticization through yi [Reverse of Romance of the Three Kingdoms} which the realities gradually became buried.
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