Knowledge Production,Textual Flux and the Pitfalls of Interpretation——An Examination Centered on the Legend of Wangfuyun(《望夫云》)
The production of knowledge about the Wangfuyun has gone through a long historical process,and is the result of the organic fusion of local knowledge of the Erhai region and traditional knowledge resources of the Central Plains.The combing of documentary records shows that Wangfuyun was not produced during the Nanzhao period,but was formally produced in the early Qing Dynasty by the rewriting of intellectual elites on the basis of a variety of knowledge resources that had appeared in the records of the Ming Dynasty.The text reflects the social context of the Erhai region in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties,and the mainstream knowledge of Wangfuyun nowadays originates from Mr.Xu Jiarui's reconstruction and interpretation of Wangfuyun.