| Abstract |
Over the past few decades many scholars had paid attention to the history of the Ming-Qing transition period. Under the conditions, San Gang Shi Lyue, written by Dong Han (1625-?), an early-Qing literate, became known to scholars. However this book was viewed by former scholars as full of the narration of mysteries and bizarreries and consequently was not valued highly in the expertise. The purpose of this article is to reinvestigate the manuscript edition of San Gang Shi Lyue, based on the texts preserved at Taiwan National Central Library and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in order to explore the significance of the writing strategy of the book characterized by mystery narration. It is argued that the specific strategy used by the author was intentionally to avoid government censorship and to preserve Ming loyalism between the lines. |
