History of the Southern Dynasties
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Chinese | 南史 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | Southern History | ||||||||||
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The History of the Southern Dynasties is one of the official Chinese historical works in the Twenty-Four Histories canon. It contain 80 volumes and covers the period from 420 to 589, the histories of the Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties in southern China during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. Like the History of the Northern Dynasties, the book was started by Li Dashi. Following his death, Li Yanshou (李延壽), his son, completed the work on the book between 643 and 659.[1] As a historian, Li Yanshou also took part of some of the compilation during the early Tang dynasty. Unlike the many other contemporary historical texts, the book was not commissioned by the state.
Content
Volumes 1–3 contain the annals of the Liu Song emperors beginning with Emperor Wu. Volumes 4–5 contain the annals of the Southern Qi emperors, volumes 6–8 contain the annals of the Liang emperors, and volumes 9–10 contain the annals of the Chen emperors. Volumes 11–12 contain the biographies of empresses and consorts. Volumes 13-69 contain biographies of figures from the Liu Song (13–40), Southern Qi (41–50), Liang (51–64), and Chen (65–69) dynasties. Volumes 70 through 80 contain other biographical content, including virtuous officials (70), Confucian scholars (71), literature (72), filial acts (73–74), recluses (75–76), favorites of nobles (77), foreign peoples (78–79), and treacherous officials (70).[2]
Sources
Li Yanshou worked as a historical records assistant (直國史) and also as a compiler of historical records (修國史) in the Tang court. During that time, he reorganized and supplemented his father's writings. He drew from other standard histories of the individual dynasties and from miscellaneous histories (雜史). With review by Linghu Defen, Li Yanshou presented his work to the emperor in 659. [3]
References
Citations
- ^ Wu & Zhen (2018), p. 273.
- ^ Strange & Hruby (2015), pp. 209–210.
- ^ Strange & Hruby (2015), pp. 210–211.
Works cited
- Strange, Mark; Hruby, Jakub (2015). "Nan shi 南史". In Dien, Albert E.; Chennault, Cynthia Louise; Knapp, Keith Nathaniel; Berkowitz, Alan J. (eds.). Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California. pp. 209–216.
- Wu, Huaiqi; Zhen, Chi (2018). An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography (e-book). Berlin: Springer.
External links
- History of the Southern Dynasties 《南史》 Chinese text with matching English vocabulary
- Text of the History of the Southern Dynasties, available from [1] National Sun Yat-sen University.
See also
- Twenty-Four Histories
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- Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian)
- Book of Han (Ban Gu)
- Book of the Later Han (Fan Ye)
- Records of the Three Kingdoms (Chen Shou)
- Book of Jin (Fang Xuanling et al.)
- Book of Song (Shen Yue)
- Book of Qi (Xiao Zixian)
- Book of Liang (Yao Silian)
- Book of Chen (Yao Silian)
- Book of Wei (Wei Shou)
- Book of Northern Qi (Li Baiyao)
- Book of Zhou (Linghu Defen et al.)
- Book of Sui (Wei Zheng et al.)
- History of the Southern Dynasties (Li Yanshou)
- History of the Northern Dynasties (Li Yanshou)
- Old Book of Tang (Liu Xu et al.)
- New Book of Tang (Ouyang Xiu, Song Qi et al.)
- Old History of the Five Dynasties (Xue Juzheng et al.)
- Historical Records of the Five Dynasties (Ouyang Xiu)
- History of Song (Toqto'a et al.)
- History of Liao (Toqto'a et al.)
- History of Jin (Toqto'a et al.)
- History of Yuan (Song Lian et al.)
- History of Ming (Zhang Tingyu et al.)
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