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III. Bibliographies and Abstracts of Sung-Period SourcesThe most informative guide to Sung-period texts of all sorts is
This selective, classified bibliography includes often detailed discussions of the contents of the works cited. There are separate indexes for book titles, authors, and subjects. For brief abstracts of some Sung-period texts, see:
This work, including 4900 titles from antiquity to 1911, is said to be the precursor of a projected Chung-kuo ku wen-hsien ta-tz'u-tien 中國古文獻大辭典 with 35,000 titles. Note that works under I.C. Introductions to the Study of Sung History also introduce selected Sung-period texts. For a discussion of recent modern critical editions of Sung texts, see:
III.A. MODERN COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIESThe following lists the Sung texts found in the Chung‑kuo ts'ung‑shu tsung‑lu中國叢書綜錄(Catalogue of Chinese collectanea), 3 vols. (Shanghai, 1959-1962; rpt. Shang-hai ku-chi, 1982). Arranged by the romanized name of the author, it includes titles of works, bibliographic category, number of chüan, and editions. There is also an index by romanized book titles. This work lists 4500 titles, including variant titles, by 1664 authors.
Two bibliographies of extant Sung writings include some works not found in the McKnight index. The following series lists 3968 titles, including rare editions and works not listed in the Ts'ung-shu tsung-lu. Entries are arranged according to the traditional four-division classification system.
There is considerable overlap between this and the second bibliography below, also arranged according to the four-division classification system, which is based on current library holdings in Taiwan.
This lists the more common pre-modern editions, primarily in collectanea. Critical notes, following each entry, compare the known editions against the entries in the major Sung-period bibliographies. The table of contents gives the classification scheme. There is no index. Within each category entries appear in approximate chronological order. The catalogue of writings by Szechwanese includes titles of the individuals' works as well as pieces found only in anthologies. Moreover, it collects references to lost writings. It is arranged by place but includes an author and title index:
It is arranged by modern county in Szechuan but includes stroke-count indexes to authors and titles and notes the period when the author was active. III.B. MODERN SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIESAs noted above, the following treats selected works in all categories. It is fully indexed and notes editions.
III.B.1. Literati Writing
The preceding is a collection of all literary prose arranged by author in chronological order. An author's compositions are grouped into 16 categories (辭賦、詔令、奏議、公牘、書啟、贈序、序跋、論說、雜記、箴銘、頌讚、傳狀、碑誌、哀祭、祈謝、其他). A complete table of contents, author index, title index and name index is forthcoming. 150 volumes are projected.
A collection of all Sung poetry, arranged by author in chronological order. Neither Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms rulers nor Liao and Chin authors are included. A complete table of contents, author index, and title index will be appended. III.B.1.a. Literary CollectionsThe most complete catalogue of extant editions of individual collections (wen-chi文集) is:
This covers the holdings of 250 PRC libraries, 32 Japanese libraries, the Library of Congress and 521 ts'ung-shu 叢書. It includes collections of 739 Sung authors (of which 107 are collections of tz'u lyrics). Arranged chronologically by author. There are four-corner indexes to the ts'ung-shu, libraries and their locations, and authors. For all pre-modern editions of the collected works of 528 individuals in Japanese library holdings, see:
Arranged by author, with author and title indexes according to Japanese pronunciation. Includes number of chüan, names of editors, date of the edition, and the library collections in which the work is held. For a listing of 350 Sung literary collections used in compiling the Sung-jen chuan-chi tzu-liao so-yin (Index to biographical materials on Sung figures) in roughly chronological order, see:
The following is a study of anthologies compiled in Sung known to be extant.
The following gives the titles, locations, and brief abstracts of documents pertaining to economic history found in 112 Sung wen-chi. There is a detailed analytic index.
III.B.1.b. PoetrySee the following three works for extensive bibliographies of literary collections, "notes on poetry," and other writings containing or about shih 詩 and tz'u 詞 poetry:
III.B.1.c. Notes on PoetryThe following contains brief descriptions of 139 shih-hua 詩話 texts from the Sung period:
Kuo has also compiled:
Kuo has also compiled fragments of lost Sung "notes on poetry":
Finally, note the following study of 29 shih-hua texts:
III.B.1.d. DramaNote the first two volumes of the following bibliography on drama:
Brief accounts of known Sung and Yuan dramas will be found in
III.B.1.e. Historical WritingsFor a study of works listed in the division of history in the "Treatise on Bibliography" in the Sung History lost or existing only in fragmentary form, see:
Originally published in parts in various journals, this cites references to the text in earlier bibliographies and gives a brief biography of the author. A chart gives the status of all historical works in the treatise. There is an author/title index by stroke-count. Liu Chao-yu has also written a series of articles on Sung-period chronological histories.
Various articles will reappear in Liu's forthcoming study
III.B.1.f Commentaries on the ClassicsFor a review of commentaries on the Book of Change written in Northern Sung, see:
III.B.2. Painting and CeramicsFor an index to Sung and Yuan paintings, see:
For 18 texts related to Sung painting see:
For a listing of 1126 Sung ceramics in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see:
III.B.3. Taoist Writings
This discusses traditions of Taoist writing under the categories: 1) Revelation and Ritual, 2) Hagiography, 3) Topographic, Epigraphic, and Historiographic Treatises, 4) Literary Anthologies and Dialogic Treatises, and 5) Exegeses and Encyclopedic Compilations. There are indexes to names and titles.
This is a critical study and index, in Chinese and English. An introduction discusses the catalogues of the Imperial Library, private collections, and the Taoist canon. Includes bibliographical references, a stroke-number index to texts in the Imperial Library and personal collections, and a personal-name index. III.B.4. Buddhist WritingsThe following article contains biographical information on Tsan‑ning 贊寧(919‑1001), the most influential of Sung Buddhist historians; notes sectarian histories of the Ch'an sect and Buddhist chronicles; and gives various bibliographical information including a chronological table of Buddhist historical works written during the Sung period.
There appears to be no listing of Buddhist writings from the Sung period that includes all the Sung texts found in the Buddhist canon. In the following work consult Appendix II for translators (Northern Sung: cols. 449-457) and Appendix III for authors (Northern and Southern Sung: cols. 464-466).
III.C. SUNG-PERIOD BIBLIOGRAPHIESThe most comprehensive extant bibliography compiled in Yuan, although based on Sung-period historiography, is the "Treatise on Bibliography" (I-wen chih) in the Sung shih/Sung History. This, later supplements, and other Sung bibliographies of government holdings have been issued in a single volume, with a single author/title index, arranged according to the four-corner system. Note that bibliographies compiled in Sung included pre-Sung works in government libraries.
Reprinted as:
These lists occasionally include some information on the author. The majority of works listed are lost. The following is the mid-eleventh-century bibliography of the imperial library collection.
Two Southern Sung annotated bibliographies of private holdings are extant. Both provide material on the author and, in many instances, the contents of the listed work. They are organized according to the four-division classification system.
For a study of the contents of this work, the author's life, and a list of those texts no longer known to be extant see:
and
There is a title index for Ch'en Chen-sun's work.
In the thirteenth century, Ma Tuan-lin incorporated the entries in both these works, drew on other bibliographies, and supplemented them with citations from other scholars in a 75-chüan bibliography in:
The bibliographic section of the Wen-hsien t'ung-k'ao is available in the following annotated edition:
Note also the "Treatise on Bibliography" in the
There is also a one-volume index to the Shih-t'ung which includes the Wen-hsien t'ung-k'ao and the T'ung-chih. It includes a four-corner index as well as a category index (fen-lei so-yin).
Note also the Yü-hai, a Southern Sung encyclopedia including extensive information on Sung and pre-Sung works. Although it does not arrange information in the form of a bibliography, the section on writings mentions specific editions and provides useful information on authors and contents. The table of contents gives the categories.
For a detailed table of contents for the Yü hai,see:
Other Southern Sung encylopedias that quote extensively from earlier texts are discussed in Teng and Biggerstaff, An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works, pp. 90-92. III.D. SUNG EDITIONS AND INSCRIPTIONSThe following is described by the Harvard-Yenching Library as "An index to descriptive notices of Chinese rare editions, appearing in 102 public and private library catalogs, collections of colophons and reading notes, and other bibliographical sources, which appeared from the Sung dynasty to the 1960s. The main body of the work comprises four-corner indices to the titles and authors of the rare books described. Stroke-count and pinyin indices to first characters are added for convenience. At the front of the volume is a list of the 102 sources (9 of them Japanese) with full bibliographical information. A useful and time-saving reference tool."
Nagasawa Kikuya's extensive studies of nearly all Sung-Yuan editions are collected in
This includes exhibit catalogues (pp. 9-35, 93-124), a study of commercial publishing (36-89), lists of library holdings (219-270), names of block carvers (128-196), etc. Okazaki Yasushi has written on Sung-Yuan editions of the dynastic histories and the Tzu-chih t'ung-chien.
For 253 Sung and Yuan editions in the Seikado Library, see:
For 36 Sung-Yuan editions of Buddhist sutras at Ryūkoku University, see:
Under each item, the author gives the available information concerning its title, cover, carvers' names, date, etc. For a listing of 370 Sung and Yuan editions and the names of printing-block carvers, see
Carvers' names are arranged in four-corner sequence and include references to the 370 texts used. There is a separate section describing these texts, arranged according to the traditional four divisions of bibliography. Recall also the appropriate section of Nagasawa Kikuya's book noted above. This appeared originally as
This includes 187 Sung editions. Carvers' names are listed for each book.. Note too
which includes the carvers' names for 21 Sung editions. Names are ordered by stroke count.
includes "A Bibliography of Southern Song Imprints from Hangzhou and Vicinity" (pp. 82-112), "A Bibliography of Southern Song Imprints from Liangzhe and Related Areas" (pp. 113-27), an index to these two bibliographies (pp. 113-34), and a list of blockcarvers' names (pp. 135-68). Inscriptions Rubbings of 1300 Sung inscriptions are reproduced in:
This collection of Chinese stone rubbings from 475 B.C. to A.D. 1949 has 8 volumes for the Sung period. The volumes are ordered chronologically. A separate index volume includes a place index and a stroke-count title index. For inscriptions appearing in Wang Hsiang-chih's cultural geography of Southern Sung, see the index appended to:
Note the following guide to the major collection of inscription collections:
Of particular value, in addition to the usual bibliographic information, are indications of the dates of the author or compiler, the time period covered by the work, and the geographical region covered by the work. There is an alphabetical index to authors and compilers. And there is a list of persons whose epitaphs have been completely transcribed.
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