Dongdu Shilüe ("Summary of Events in the Eastern Capital") is an 1186 Chinese book chronicling the Northern Song dynasty (960–1126) history, written by Wang Cheng, a Southern Song official in the historiographic compilation bureau. It was so titled because Song's "Eastern Capital" Kaifeng had fallen to the Jin dynasty since the Jingkang incident in 1127.
| Author | Wang Cheng |
|---|---|
| Country | Song dynasty |
| Language | Classical Chinese |
| Subject | history of the Song dynasty |
Publication date | 1186 |
| Dongdu Shilüe | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 東都事略 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东都事略 | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Much of the information appears to be compiled by Wang Cheng's father Wang Shang (王賞), who worked in the editorial office for the Veritable Records during 1142–43.[1]
Contents edit
The book contains 130 chapters (卷):[2]
- Chapters 1–12: annals of emperors (帝紀), one chapter each for every Northern Song emperor (from Emperor Taizu of Song to Emperor Qinzong)
- Chapters 13–17: biographies of imperial relatives (世家)
- Chapters 18–122: biographies (列傳), including the empresses
- Chapters 123–130: supplementary monographs (附錄) about foreign countries: 2 chapters each for Liao dynasty, Jin dynasty, and Western Xia, and 1 chapter each for Tibet (Gusiluo regime) and Đại Việt (Ngô dynasty, Đinh dynasty, Early Lê dynasty, and Lý dynasty)
References edit
- ^ Haeger, J. W. (1978). "Tung-tu shih-lüeh". In Balazs, Etienne; Hervouet, Yves (eds.). A Sung Bibliography. The Chinese University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 962-201-158-6.
- ^ Theobald, Ulrich (2010-07-03). "Dongdu shilüe". Chinaknowledge.
External links edit
Chinese Wikisource has original text related to this article:
 | This article about a non-fiction book on Chinese history is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |