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IX.A.2. Institutional Terms and Usage

For institutional terms and their usage, the most comprehensive modern historical dictionary is:

 (C) JQ1512.Z1 K864 1997
Songdai guanzhi cidian
宋代官制辞典
(A Dictionary of Song Dynasty Government)
Gong Yanming 龔延明
Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1997. 49, 88, 800 p.

This dictionary covers official titles (11000 entries) and administrative jargon (600 entries). It is organized according to the bureaucratic hierarchy. There is a comprehensive index in the back. A survey of the Song administration (pp. 1-49) comes in front. The tables are listed on p. 88. Appendices include: 1) a bibliography of sources; 2) indexes by stroke order for each of the two parts of the dictionary.


Also useful, but less complete is:

R2457/2325(5)
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, 543p.



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.

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
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.
Wuhan: Hu-pei tz'u-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1990. 948p.

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
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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