The history of imperial China : a research guide
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The history of imperial China : a research guide
（Harvard East Asian monographs, 49）
East Asian Research Center, Harvard University , Distributed by Harvard University Press, c1973
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中国近代以前歴史研究手冊
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This is one of the most comprehensive introductions in English to Sino-logical methods and traditional Chinese historical writing. The time span ranges from earliest times to 1911, with special emphasis on the years between the third century BC and the 18th century. The author includes introductions to major reference works and biographical information, and explanations of such matters as converting traditional dates. In addition to standard histories, the survey covers biographical writing, historical and administrative geography, works on statecraft, archival sources, and Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist writings.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Research hints: guides and reference works - manuals, bibliographic guides, and syllabi, guides to reference works, Japanese historical encyclopaedias
- dictionaries
- how to find out what sources are available from a given period
- how to find rapidly the contents of primary sources
- where to find primary sources - library catalogues, collectanea
- how to locate places
- how to find biographical materials
- how to convert dates
- indexes and concordances
- secondary sources - comprehensive bibliographies, bibliographies of Chinese secondary sources, main Chinese journals and how to locate them, bibliographies of Japanese secondary sources, main Japanese journals and how to locate them, bibliographies of Western secondary soruces, main Western journals. Part 2 Traditional Chinese historical writing and main categories of primary sources: introduction - characteristics of traditional Chinese historical writing, note on availability of sources from different periods, main categories of Chinese historical sources at a glance - glossary-index to Part 2
- ancillary disciplines - historiography, traditional classification of primary sources, textual criticism
- archaeology and epigraphy - archaeology, epigraphy, oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, stone inscriptions
- annalistic sources and annals style - basic annalistic sources and veritable records, major works in annals style
- topically arranged histories
- the standard histories - editions, corrections, supplements and studies, studies and research aids for individual standard histories, monographs in the standard histories
- biographical writing - commemorative writings, historical biographies, chronological biographies, genealogies and family instructions, how to find biographical materials
- historical and administrative geography - maps, local gazetteers, how to find local gazetteers, foreign peoples and border areas, travel accounts, cities, merchant manuals and route books, how to locate places
- encyclopaedic histories of institutions
- administrative and penal law - pre-Tang law, the statutes and compendia of administrative law (Tang and post-Tang), guides and handbooks for local officials and clerks, the penal codes (Tang and post-Tang)
- army administration and warfare
- collections of important documents
- collections of edicts and memorials
- new documentary sources - Han documents on wooden slips, Dunhuang manuscripts, Ming / Qing archives, provincial and district archives, private documents, works on agriculture, technology, and water control
- encyclopaedias
- literary anthologies and collected works
- miscellaneous notes
- Confucian classics and philosophical works
- Buddhist and Taoist writings
- oral and popular traditions
- foreign writings.
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