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The Book of Wei, also known by its Chinese name as the Wei Shu, [1] is a classic Chinese historical text compiled by Wei Shou from 551 to 554, and is an important text describing the history of the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei from 386 to 550. [2]
In China, the Zhonghua Book Company have edited a number of these histories. They have been collated, edited, and punctuated by Chinese specialists. [ 16 ] From 1991 to 2003, it was translated from Literary Chinese into modern written vernacular Chinese , by Xu Jialu and other scholars.
The Scholars (Chinese: 儒林外史; pinyin: Rúlín Wàishǐ), also translated as The Unofficial History of the Scholars, [note 1] is a Chinese novel written by Wu Jingzi and published in 1750 during the Qing dynasty.
Hucker's system has, in the main, not been adopted by the scholarly community. Its strengths are that it was created with a goal of systematisation and universality, and built upon sound principles of translation: that the rendering should ideally convey both the sense of the responsibilities of the office and the literal Chinese meaning, that it should avoid too-familiar Western analogues ...
'Lost Book of Zhou') is a compendium of Chinese historical documents about the Western Zhou period (1046–771 BCE). Its textual history began with a (4th century BCE) text/compendium known as the Zhou Shu ("Book of Zhou"), which was possibly not differentiated from the corpus of the same name in the extant Book of Documents .
The Chronicles of the Clans of Wei (Chinese: 魏氏春秋; pinyin: Weìshì Chūnqiū) was a Chinese history text on the Cao Wei dynasty, [1] written by Sun Sheng of the Eastern Jin dynasty in the 4th century. [2] Its content survives only in the annotations in other books.
The Book of Zhou (Zhōu Shū) records the official history of the Xianbei-led Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties of China, and ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. Compiled by the Tang dynasty historian Linghu Defen , the work was completed in 636 CE and consists of 50 chapters, some of which have been lost and ...
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