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IV. Historical Encyclopedias and Modern ChronologiesIV.A. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIESIV.A.1. Sung HistoryOf exceptional importance is the Sung volume of the projected thirteen-part Great Dictionary of Chinese History. Entries are arranged by stroke-count. The author of the entry is given at the end of each item. It includes short biographies, explanations of institutional terms, book titles, etc.
There are also volumes devoted to the preceding period and to the conquest dynasties.
For other works in this series see below. For institutional terms, policies, and figures associated with the New Policies regime of Wang An-shih and his followers, see:
IV.A.2. General Encyclopedias of Chinese HistoryBoth of the following note major Sung figures and events:
and
IV.A.3. Topical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: All Periods of Chinese HistoryIV.A.3.a. SeriesEach volume of theGreat Encyclopedia of Chinatreats a particular discipline, for example,
covers major literary works, literary figures, and terms. Entries are in alphabetical order according to p'in-yin romanization. There is a stroke-count index and an alphabetically arranged subject index. For history, see:
The front index is by category and then period. Individual items are arranged by p'in-yin romanization. A chronological table, a stroke-count index, and a topical index are appended. For the Sung period, check the category index, and then search for items listed under "Liao, Sung, Hsi Hsia, Chin". Other volumes of theGreat Encyclopedia of China covering Sung-period topics include:
In addition to the volumes noted above the following topical volumes of the Great Dictionary of Chinese History contain Sung-period material.
IV.A.3.b. Encyclopedias of LiteratureThe following, an international collaborative effort, is the most extensive encyclopedia of Chinese literature in English.
The following authoritative Chinese encyclopedia of Chinese literature is arrranged by stroke count. There is also a subject index and an alphabetical index.
The following five-volume work covers in separate sections writers and literary groups, writings, literary styles, famous lines, etc.
The following one-volume work has 5700 entries on major writers, writings, literary schools, styles, allusions, famous lines, etc. It is arranged by stroke count; there is an alphabetical index to the entry headings.
The Dictionary of Chinese Traditional Fiction treats fiction (chih-kuai 志怪, i-shih 佚史, ch'uan-ch'I 傳奇 and other forms) describes titles of works in chronological order. A volume on Sung, Yuan, and Ming writings is expected.
For shih poetry the following is useful. Most of the work is devoted to separate essays on 1253 poems by 253 Sung authors. The bibliographies, chronology, and indexes to titles and lines make this a reference work as well.
The following is also important for shih poetry. Included are an index to the titles of the poems discussed; maps of the peregrinations of Su Shih, Huang T'ing-chien, Lu Yu, and Fan Ch'eng-ta; a list of Sung anthologies; an index to Sung literary collections; a listing of biographical sources, shih-hua, Japanese translations and modern Chinese annotated editions; a table of rhymes; and an account with charts of the bureaucratic system before and after 1082.
This encyclopedia of T'ang and Sung tz'u is somewhat typical of the many literary encyclopedias that have appeared. A description of its contents follows.
Detailed table of contents (167 p.) listing all items in each of the sixteen sections. 1. Terms (yü-tz'u 語詞): pp. 1-280. Ordered alphabetically. 2. Allusions (tien-ku典故), pp. 281-551. Ordered alphabetically. 3. Domestic research, pp 552-634, covering researchers and scholarly studies, arranged chronologically, and academic debates. 4. Foreign research, pp. 635-733, covering general studies, studies of tz'u poets, methodology, and specialists. 5. Texts (tien-chi 典籍), pp. 734-813, listing individual collections and anthologies. 6. Criticism (mei-hsueh 美學), pp. 814-851, covering critics in chronological order, works of criticism in chronological order, and critical terminology. 7. Selected tz'u criticism (tz'u-hua chi-chin 詞話集錦) , pp. 852-943. General comment on each poet and criticism of specific tz'u. 8. Anecdotes (tz'u-t'an i-shih 詞壇軼事), pp. 944-964. 9. Music (yin-yueh 音樂), pp. 965-1010. On the classifications of music, temperament, musical scores, styles and composition methods, and forms of performance. 10. Religion (tsung-chiao 宗教), pp. 1011-1034.Religious figures and terms in tz'u. 11. Customs (min-su 民俗), pp. 1035-1110. References to material culture in tz'u. 12. Official titles, pp. 1111-1136. 13. General knowledge, pp. 1137-1188. Common tz'u tunes titles. 14. T'ang and Sung tz'u poets (T'ang-Sung tz'u-jen 唐宋詞人), pp. 1189-1233. Biographies. 15. Analyses of some entire tz'u (tz'u-tso p'ing-tien 詞作評點), pp. 1234-1324. Detailed analyses of famous lines (ming-chü ching-hsi 名句精析), pp. 1325-1342. There is also a series of indexes: to prefaces and postscripts of T'ang-Sung tz'u collections, to books of essays on tz'u and tools for studying tz'u published on the mainland, and to articles in Chinese about T'ang-Sung tz'u studies. A select bibliography of foreign studies is appended. There is a stroke-count index to topic headings in sections 1-6 and 9-14. The following has essays on 700 tz'u poems by 213 authors, a chronology, bibliographies, indexes, and a full set of tz'u patterns.
Of similar scope is the following, in fifteen sections:
IV.A.3.c. Other EncyclopediasFor philosophy, see:
3475 entries on figures, writings, terms, philosophical schools, etc. There is an alphabetical index and a subject index to the entry headings. A classified bibliography of major books in Chinese since 1949 is included. For Ch'an Buddhism, see:
IV.B. CHRONOLOGIESIV.B.1. Political ChronologiesThe "Basic Annals" of the Sung History have been translated into Japanese as:
Year-by-year tables of important political events and civil and military appointments, with a second table noting significant cultural events. Generally one page for each year. Corresponding year dates for Korea, Liao, Hsi‑hsia, Chin, and Yuan are noted. A chronology of astrological portents and natural disasters is appended. This partly supersedes:
which translates and indexes the section on Sung in the
have been supplemented with biographical information (including date of figure's death), further details on foreign relations, and brief descriptions of major domestic policy initatives during the Sung, Five Dynasties, Liao, Chin, and Hsia and published separately as:
Of note is the first chronological index to the Sung hui-yao. This lists the dates for all the documents in the Sung hui-yao in chronological order, thus creating a guide to the most complete chronological history of the Sung period. This work may also appear as a computer database.
IV.B.2. Reign DatesFor a chronology of Sung reigns and a discussion of reign names, see:
IV.B.3. Other ChronologiesFor intellectual culture, see:
In addition to Neo-Confucians, this work notes important literary figures, classicists, historians, and so on, as well as events in intellectual and cultural history. Also for Sung Confucianism, or "Sung Learning," note the three sets of time-lines for important figures during Northern Sung, Southern Sung, and Chu Hsi's lifetime appended to:
For chronologies centered on shih and tz'u poetry respectively, see:
For foreign relations, see:
Organized by state; notes duration of mission, envoys, purpose, and sequence of events. The section on Japan was still in progress when the 1983 edition appeared.
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