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.
The Book of Song was based on records compiled beginning in the Liu Song. He Chentian 何承天 (370–447) was commissioned by the imperial court of the time in 439. He compiled biographies and also treatises on astronomy and music. Compilation was later continued by Shan Qianzhi 山謙之 (fl. 440–456), and Xu Yuan 徐爰 (394–475). The Qi court commissioned Shen Yue in 487 to complete the Book of Song.[2]
ContentsEdit
The first ten juan or volume are annals of the Liu Song emperors, 30 juan contain treatises, and 60 juan are dedicated to biographies.
TranslationsEdit
There are no known full translations to English. Dien includes partial translations of The Disputation at Pengcheng, a conflict in present-day Xuzhou.[3] Dien compares the Northern Wei and Liu Song accounts of this one in a long series of conflicts between the two states. The Liu Song account is included in volume 59 of the Book of Song. Holcombe translates a fragment of volume 54 on a land petition.[4]
ReferencesEdit
^Wilkinson, Endymion (2012). Chinese History: A New Manual. Harvard University Asia Center. p. 730. ISBN978-0-674-06715-8.
^Knechtges, David R; Cheng, Taiping, eds. (2014). Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (Vol. 2): A Reference Guide. Leiden; Boston: Leiden Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 1003–1005.
^Dien, Albert E (2014). "The Disputation at Pengcheng: Accounts from the Wei Shu and Song Shu". In Swartz, Wendy (ed.). Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (e-book ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 57–84.
^Holcombe, Charles (2014). "On Land and Wealth: Liu Zishang's "Petition on Closing off Mountains and Lakes" and Yang Xi's "Discussion on Abolishing Old Regulations Regarding Mountains and Marshes"". In Swartz, Wendy (ed.). Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (e-book ed.). New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 172–180.
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