Abstract
An historian in the dock : Liu Zhiji on Wei Shou. In Liu Zhiji’s Generalities on History (Shitong 史 通 ), Wei Shou 魏 收 (506-572) appears to be the counter-model of the ideal historian. Judged as partial, unfair and servile to the political power that employed him (the Northern Qi), Wei Shou, author of the Book of Wei (Weishu 魏 書 ), is indeed the bugbear of the critic. The article examines the formal and ideological particularities of the Book of Wei, as brought out by Liu Zhiji 劉 知 幾 (661-721). The numerous comments of Liu Zhiji shows that the question of political legitimity, especially the antagonism Northern states vs Southern states, count for much in his judgements on the historical works of and on the Early Medieval period (220-589).
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