Abstract: In 1923 Liang Sicheng suffered a car accident. About this incident, the image material is in conflict with the written material, however. The image interfered with the narration of the related biographies. Based on three biographies that concerns the subject, the paper discusses how the picture enters the text, and how it partly changes narration of the biographies. By relating the contradictory phenomena with the boom of pictorial biography in the late 1990s inChina, this paper is aimed at offering one kind of explanation for this problem.

Key words: Liang Sicheng; biography; pictorial biography

Zhang Weina is a graduate student inSchoolofLiberal ArtsatNanjing University,China.