Textual Omission Attribution Shift / 史书删节与责任归属转移

Textual omission attribution shift / 史书删节与责任归属转移 is the historiographical pattern Qinji 128-5 identifies when comparing 《史记》 and 《资治通鉴》. The source says Zizhi Tongjian removes a Shiji sentence explaining that 张耳 and 陈馀 resented 陈胜 for not using their plan and for appointing them only as commandants.

The omission changes the moral geometry of the story. With the motive present, Zhang Er and Chen Yu’s advice to 武臣 has a private grievance component in addition to strategic caution. Without it, their move looks more like a justified response to Chen Sheng’s suspicion and poor rule, so responsibility for 反秦阵营诸侯化分裂 shifts toward Chen Sheng.

This concept does not claim that every omission is distortion. It records a specific source-reading rule: when a later chronicle condenses a fuller biographical source, removed motive clauses can change which actor seems selfish, prudent, loyal, or blameworthy.

Hanji 156 part 1 adds a second Chen Yu case. The episode says 《资治通鉴》’s shorter account does not fully preserve the 《史记》 wording in which 陈馀 often claims that a righteous army does not use deceptive or strange stratagems. Restoring that line changes the reading of Chen Yu’s refusal of 李左车’s plan: it becomes not only bad battlefield judgment, but moralized anti-deception command mixed with concern over how other lords will judge Zhao.

Connections

• 《史记》, 《资治通鉴》, and 司马光 - source and compiler field.
• 张耳, 陈馀, 陈胜, and 武臣 - actors whose motives are affected.
• 反秦阵营诸侯化分裂 and 六国复国式反秦策略 - political patterns shaped by the attribution.
• 史书异文政治重量 and 编年史料空缺 - adjacent source-critical concepts already in the wiki.
• Hanji 156 part 1, 李左车, 井陉口, and 道德化拒诈指挥 - fuller Shiji wording around Chen Yu’s rejected supply-cut plan.