书名：Public Memory in Early China / 中国早期的公共记忆
定价：598.0
ISBN：9780674492035
作者：K. E. Brashier
版次：1
出版时间：2014-01

内容提要：
书名：Public Memory in Early China / 早期中国的公共记忆
作者：K. E. Brashier
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2014年
装帧：精装，526页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6744-9203-5

简介
在帝制早期的中国，逝者通过被类型化的方式来纪念——将他们与已有的公共记忆相联系，而不是突出每个人生前的独特与非凡之处。他们的谥号从有限的预定库中选择，描述语来自经典传统中的固定短语，其身份被明确归类为“像某位古代文化英雄”或“像某位圣贤官员”。换句话说，死后的纪念是一个将新祖先注入预制模具或用刻板模具压印的过程。
本书考察了帝制早期学习如何依赖于记忆和背诵，并通过姓名、年龄和亲属关系这三个确定身份的参数，探讨了个人如何在集体意识中协商其相对位置。作者随后审视了将这些已定义的身份焊入汉代公共记忆基础设施的实体与非实体媒介。

Public Memory in Early China is an examination of the process by which the dead were remembered in early imperial China through stereotyping and relating them to existing public memory, rather than by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity—name, age, and kinship—as ways of negotiating a person's relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory.