Book of Song

Not to be confused with History of Song or Book of Songs.

The Book of Song (simplified Chinese: 宋书; traditional Chinese: 宋書; pinyin: Sòng Shū) is a historical text of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties of China. It covers history from 420 to 479, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories, a traditional collection of historical records. It was written in 492–493 by Shen Yue from the Southern Qi dynasty (479–502).^[1]

The work contained 100 volumes at the time that it was written, but some volumes were already missing by the time of the Song Dynasty. Later editors reconstructed those volumes by taking material from the History of the Southern Dynasties, plus a few works such as the Historiette of Gao by Gao Jun, though many of those volumes were no longer in their original condition.

References

↑ Wilkinson, Endymion (2012). Chinese History: A New Manual. Harvard University Asia Center. p. 730. ISBN 978-0-674-06715-8.

Twenty-Four Histories

Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian)
Book of Han (Ban Gu)
Book of the Later Han (Fan Ye)
Records of the Three Kingdoms (Chen Shou)
Book of Jin (Fang Xuanling et al.)
Book of Song (Shen Yue)
Book of Qi (Xiao Zixian)
Book of Liang (Yao Silian)
Book of Chen (Yao Silian)
Book of Wei (Wei Shou)
Book of Northern Qi (Li Baiyao)
Book of Zhou (Linghu Defen et al.)
Book of Sui (Wei Zheng et al.)
History of the Southern Dynasties (Li Yanshou)
History of the Northern Dynasties (Li Yanshou)
Old Book of Tang (Liu Xu et al.)
New Book of Tang (Ouyang Xiu et al.)
Old History of the Five Dynasties (Xue Juzheng et al.)
New History of the Five Dynasties (Ouyang Xiu)
History of Song (Toqto'a et al.)
History of Liao (Toqto'a et al.)
History of Jin (Toqto'a et al.)
History of Yuan (Song Lian et al.)
History of Ming (Zhang Tingyu et al.)

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