The article examines a little-studied work of medieval literature, Queshi (The Missing History). Written by an otherwise unknown author between the ninth and tenth century AD, this collection of short stories records minor historical events of the last decades of the Tang dynasty (618–907). Scholars have long suspected the book to be incomplete, a hypothesis the first part of this article will explore. The enigmatic fragments of a supplementary scroll, in turn, suggest that some stories were probably deliberately expunged between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The article will show that these fragments, although unlikely to be original, did gravitate towards the book and were in fact included in it. A close inspection of a note appended to the book will reveal traces of the editing process through which the book went.

这篇文章考察了一部鲜为人知的中世纪文学作品《却实》（失踪的历史）。这本短篇小说集由一位不为人知的作者在公元 9 世纪和 10 世纪之间撰写，记录了唐朝（618-907 年）最后几十年的小历史事件。长期以来，学者们一直怀疑这本书不完整，这是本文第一部分将探讨的假设。补充卷轴的神秘碎片反过来表明，一些故事可能在 14 世纪和 16 世纪之间被故意删除。这篇文章将表明，这些片段虽然不太可能是原创的，但确实被这本书所吸引，并且实际上包含在其中。仔细检查附在书上的注释将揭示本书所经历的编辑过程的痕迹。