The Writing of Official History under the T'ang (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

8vo pp. x- 290 Part I. The Bureaucratic Apparatus: 1. Introduction; 2. The bureaucratic apparatus; Part II. The Compilation of the Historical Record: 3. Introduction; 4. The court diaries (Ch'i-chii chu); 5. The inner palace diaries (Nei Ch'i-chii chu); 6. The record of administrative affairs (Shih-cheng chi); 7. The daily calandar (Jih-li); 8. Biographies; 9. Histories of institutions, historical encyclopedias, and collections of documents; 10. The veritable records (Shih-lu); 11. The national history (Kuo shih); Part III. The Chiu T'ang shu: 12. The compilation of the Chiu T'ang shu; 13. The Chiu T'ang shu and its sources: the basic annals; 14. The Chiu T'ang shu and its sources: the monographs; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. gives a detailed account of the establishment of the official apparatus designed to produce a record of the T ang dynasty, which would remain standard for more than a millennium, with some analysis of the individuals who served in these offices. The second part gives all available detail about the various works produced by this apparatus, divided among its various genres, and listing all known titles, their authorship, and their relationships to one another. The third part shows the cumulative process by which a dynastic history came into being, and the way in which we can detect various elements in the completed history.