Note: useful for determining the meaning and usage of various
terms are the several indexes that cover terms as well as proper
nouns. These are listed in Section VI above. Refer also to the
historical dictionaries and encyclopedias listed in Part
IV.A.
The following is the most comprehensive dictionary to date of
Sung literary usages and colloquialisms as found in literary
works, records of speech, and other texts. Arranged by stroke
count.
Ref (C) PL1497.L786 1985x
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Sung Yuan
yü-yen tz'u-tien
宋元語言辭典
(Dictionary of Sung and Yuan language).
Lung Ch'ien-an 龍潛庵 comp.
Shanghai: Shang-hai tz'u-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1985. 1023 p.
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There is also an index to the colloquial language and
vocabulary used in the Classified Conversations of Chu
Hsi:
J1237/7650
LoC: B128.C53 Z85 1988 Japan |
Shushi gorui kōgo goi sakuin
朱子語類口語語彙索引
[Chu-tzu yü-lei "k'ou-yü yü-hui" so-yin]
(Index to the "vocabulary of colloquialisms" in the Chu-tzu
yü-lei).
Shiomi Kunihiko 鹽見邦彥 comp.
Tokyo: Chūbun shuppansha, 1988. 240 p.
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We note here the completion of the most extensive and
authoritative dictionary of written Chinese:
Ref (C) PL1420.H3494 1986
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Han-yü
ta-tz'u-tien
漢語大辭典
(Great dictionary of the Chinese language).
Hong Kong: San-lien shu-chü, 1986-1994. 12 & 1 vols.
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For vernacular terms after the late T'ang, see:
5175/0203
LoC: PL1420 .C516 1992 China |
Chin-tai Han-yü tz'u-tien
近代漢語辭典
(Dictionary of early-modern and modern Chinese language).
Kao Wen-ta 高文達 general comp.
Peking: Hsin-hua shu-tien, 1992. 1034 p.
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Includes definitions, examples of usages, variations, and
related items.
For institutional terms and their usage, the most
comprehensive modern historical dictionary is the previously
mentioned:
R2457/2325(5)
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Chung-kuo li-shih ta-tz'u-tien: Sung shih
中國歷史大辭典：宋史
(Great dictionary of Chinese history: Sung history).
Teng Kuang-ming 鄧廣銘and Ch'eng Ying-liu 程應鏐 ed.
Shanghai: Shang-hai tz'u-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1984. 71, 543
p.
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Note, however, the previously mentioned:
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Sung-tai kuan-ming shu-yü tz'u-tien
宋代官名術語辭典
(Dictionary of Sung-period official titles and
terminology).
Kung Yen-ming 龔延明
Peking: Chung-hua, forthcoming.
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For terms pertaining to Chinese social and economic history,
but not exclusively to the Sung period, see:
(J) HC427.H67 1966x
LoC: H49 .H66 (Orien Japan) |
Chūgoku shakai keizai shi goi
中國社會經濟史語彙
(Vocabulary for Chinese social and economic history).
Hoshi Ayao 星斌夫
2 vols. Tokyo: Tōyōbunko, 1966 and 1975. 425 and 168 p.
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Volume 2 is a supplement to the first volume. Both are
organized by Japanese pronunciation and include a stroke-count
index.
Also for terms pertaining to Chinese economic history, but not
exclusively to the Sung period, see:
4352/4824
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Chung-kuo ching-chi-shih tz'u-tien
中國經濟史辭典
(Dictionary of Chinese economic history).
Chao Te-hsin 趙德馨 comp.
N.p: Hu-pei tz'u-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1990. 948p.
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This includes 5470 historical items. There is a classified
index by period and then by subject. There is a stroke-count
index. For Sung economic history, see the section by Ko
Chin-fang 葛金芳 and Ku Jung 顧容, pp. 330-431.
For a variety of terms relevant to Wang An-shih's New Policies
regime, see the glossary in:
J4616/1131.2
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Ō Anseki jiten
王安石事典
(Encyclopedia of Wang An-shih).
Higashi Ichio 東一夫
Tokyo: Kokusho kankōkai, 1980, pp. 279-342.
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For definitions and translations of names for the various
kinds of documents and informal literary writings appearing in
literary collections, with references to examples, see:
(W) DS751.S83
LoC: DS751 .S83 |
"A Guide to Documentary Sources of Middle Period Chinese History:
Documentary Forms
Contained in the Collected Papers (wen-chi) of Twenty-one
T'ang and Sung Writers."
Robert M. Hartwell.
Bulletin of Sung-Yuan Studies18 (1986): 133-182.
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For terms relating to tz'u poetry, see the
glossary in:
5577/4089
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Sung tz'u chien-shang tz'u-tien
宋詞鑒賞辭典
(Guide to Sung tz'u poetry).
Ho Hsin-hui 賀新輝 ed.
Peking: Pei-ching Yen-shan ch'u-pan-she, 1987, pp.
1288-1297,
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and
(C) PL2336.T4 1990
LoC: PL2336 .T4 1990 China |
T'ang Sung tz'u pai-k'o ta-tz'u-tien
唐宋詞百科大辭典
(Encyclopedia of T'ang and Sung tz'u poetry)
Wang Hung 王洪 et cl. comp.
Peking: Hsueh-yuan ch'u-pan-she, 1990. pp. 1-280.
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For allusions used in Sung tz'u lyrics, see:
5577/8134
LoC: PL2343 .C49 1991 China |
Ch'üan-Sung-tz'u tien-ku k'ao-shih tz'u-tien
全宋詞典故考釋辭典
(Dictionary of allusions used in the Ch'üan-Sung
tz'u)
Chin Ch'i-hua 金啟華 general ed.
Ch'ang-chun: Chi-lin wen-shih ch'u-pan-she, 1991. 1178 p.
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and
Ref (C) PL2341.T38 1994x
LoC: PL1497 .T3565 1994 China |
T'ang Sung tz'u tien-ku ta-tz'u-tien.
唐宋詞典故大辭典
(Great dictionary of
allusions in T'ang and Sung tz'u lyrics)
Ko Ch'eng-min 葛成民, Hsieh Ya-fei 謝亞非, et al.
N.p: Kuang-hsi jen-min, 1994. 1500 p.
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Each item gives origin （典源）, expanation （釋義）, and examples
（用例）. Items are arranged in stroke count order.
For Ch'an Buddhist terminology, see the previously
cited:
Ref (J) BQ9259.Z45
LoC: BQ9259 .Z45 |
Zengaku daijiten.
禪學大辭典
(Great dictionary of Ch'an Buddhism)
Komazawa daigaku nai Zengaku daijiten hensanjo
駒澤大學內禪學大辭典編纂所 comp.
Tokyo: Daishūkan shoten, 1978. 3 vols.
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For terms appearing in 30 T'ang and 80 Sung literati
miscellanies, see:
5209/1113
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T'ang Sung pi-chi yü-tz'u
hui-shih
唐宋筆記語辭匯釋
(Glossary of terms in T'ang and Sung miscellanies).
Wang Ying 王瑛
Peking: Chung-hua shu-tien, 1990. 257 p.
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Items are ordered by pronunciation (p'in-yin
romanization). There is a stroke-count index. The author
defines each term, explains its grammatical function, and gives
examples.
Of the several dictionaries compiled or revised during Sung
one of the most important, the Kuang-yun, a 5-chüan
rhyme dictionary from 1011 with over 26,000 characters, has been
indexed; see:
5125/7948g
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Chiao-cheng Sung-pen Kuang-yun,
fu so‑yin
校正宋本廣韻附索引
(Collated Sung edition of the Expanded rhymes, with
index).
Ch'en P'eng-nien 陳彭年 (961-1017) et al.
Corrected by I-wen yin-shu-kuan 藝文印書館
Taipei: I-wen yin-shu-kuan, 1967.
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This supersedes
5123/7948.5
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Kōin sakuin.
廣韻索引
[Kuang-yun so-yin]]
(Index to the Kuang-yin).
Sakai Ken'ichi 井見一et al. comp.
Tokyo: Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku Tōyō bungaku kenkyūshitsu Chūgoku
bunka kenkyū kai, 1953.
McMullen #267.
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The fan-ch'ieh spellings in the Kuang-yun have
been indexed in:
LoC: PL1201.K853 H37 1966 Japan
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Kōin hansetsu sakuin
廣韻反切索引
[Kuang-yun fan-ch'ieh so-yin]
(Index to the fan-ch'ieh spellings in the
Kuang-yun).
Harada Tanenari 原田種成 comp.
Tokyo: Mukyūkai Tōyō bunka kenkyūjo, 1966. 85 p.
McMullen #268.
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Chao Sheng's 趙升 Ch'ao-yeh lei-yao, from the thirteenth
century in 5 chüan, defines terms from many areas of
official life. It is indexed by:
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Ch'ao‑yeh lei‑yao yin‑te
朝野類要引得
(Index to the Important affairs in state and
society).
Stephen Yu.
San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1974. 50 p.
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Two Sung works covering a wide variety of topics of interest
to officials and literati are listed below. These
reprinted editions include full tables of contents with page
numbers.
9297/0213b
R9297/0213b
LoC: AE2 .K35 1970 (Orien China) |
Shih-wu chi-yuan chi-lei
事物紀原紀類
(On the origins of things and affairs, collected by category).
Kao Ch'eng 高承(fl. late 11th century)
1447; rpt. Taipei: Hsin-hsing, 1969. 10 ch.
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R9297/4972
LoC: DS705 .L48 (Orien China) |
Ku-chin yuan-liu
chih-lun
古今源流至論
(Full accounts of origins, past and present).
Lin Chiung 林駉(fl. ca. 1215).
Ming ed. rpt. Taipei: Hsin-hsing, 1970. 2 vols. 30
ch.
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Of value for administrative matters, particularly for
clerical terminology, is the following Yuan-period work.
This edition includes a stroke-count index.
4671/2911
LoC: PL1271 .H8163 1969 (Orien China) |
Li-hsueh chih-nan
史學指南
(Manual of clerical studies).
Hsu Yuan-jui 徐元瑞(fl. 1301).
Taipei: Ta-hua yin-shu-kuan, n.d. 133 p.
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The following is a kind of thesaurus for letter
writing. It lists elegant literary alternatives (with loci
classici) for commonplace terms and phrases.
9100/3525(2979-81)
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Shu-hsu chih-nan
書敘指南
(Guide to correspondence).
Jen Kuang 任廣 (fl. c.1102).
Ts'ung-shu chi-ch'eng 叢書集成 20 ch.
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For philosphical terms in the Neo-Confucian school of Chu
Hsi, as glossed by Chu's disciple Ch'en Ch'un 陳淳in his
Pei-hsi tzu-i 北溪字義 with comments from later philosophical
thinkers, see:
(W) B127.N4 C46813 1986
LoC: B127.N4 C46813 1986 |
Neo-Confucian Terms Explained
(The Pei-hsi tzu-i).
Ch'en Ch'un
(1159-1223).
Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Wing-tsit
Chan
New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 277 p.
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