THE COMMERCE OF COMMEMORATION: COMMISSIONED MUZHIMING IN THE MID- TO LATE TANG

IF 0.5 0 ASIAN STUDIES
A. Ditter
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Abstract This article examines muzhiming, primarily excavated, written between 760 and 846 that were composed on commission, i.e., at the explicit behest of another party. I argue that in commissioning muzhiming, clients wished to do more than merely create a record of the deceased or identify the tomb occupant in perpetuity; they sought in addition to titivate the posthumous reputation of the deceased as well as enhance the reputations of family and friends among the broader audience for these texts. Moreover, because commissioned texts were often regarded with skepticism, writers of commissioned muzhiming employed a variety of rhetorical tactics within their compositions—quoted speech, final words, and the careful framing of the circumstances under which they were commissioned—in attempting to convince audiences of the reliability of their accounts. Finally, I explore why, other than for compensation, writers may have been willing to compose muzhiming on commission. My contention is that writers used these texts to enhance their own reputations as writers, or, less commonly, to make broader arguments illustrated or exemplified by their account of the life of the deceased.
纪念商业:唐中后期委托木志明
摘要本文考察了主要出土于公元760年至公元846年的《木志明》,这些《木志明》是受委托创作的,即受他人的明确委托。我认为,在委托木志铭时,客户希望做的不仅仅是创建死者的记录或永久识别墓主;除此之外,他们还寻求激发死者死后的声誉,并在这些文本的更广泛的受众中提高家人和朋友的声誉。此外,由于受委托撰写的文本常常受到怀疑,受委托撰写的穆志明作者在他们的作品中采用了各种修辞策略——引用的演讲、最后的话语,以及对受委托撰写的环境的精心设计——试图让读者相信他们的描述是可靠的。最后,我探讨了为什么除了报酬之外,作家们可能愿意接受佣金来创作木志铭。我的观点是,作家们利用这些文本来提高自己作为作家的声誉,或者,不太常见的是,通过他们对死者生活的描述来提出更广泛的论点。
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