Dongdu Shilüe

Dongdu Shilüe

Author	Wang Cheng
Language	Classical Chinese
Subject	history of the Song dynasty
Publication date	1186
Publication place	Song dynasty

Dongdu Shilüe
Traditional Chinese	東都事略
Simplified Chinese	东都事略
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dōngdū Shìlüè Wade–Giles Tung-tu shih-lüeh

Dongdu Shilüe ("Summary of Events in the Eastern Capital") is an 1186 Chinese book chronicling the Northern Song dynasty (960–1126) history, written by Wang Cheng, a Southern Song official in the historiographic compilation bureau. It was so titled because Song's "Eastern Capital" Kaifeng had fallen to the Jin dynasty since the Jingkang incident in 1127.

Much of the information appears to be compiled by Wang Cheng's father Wang Shang (王賞), who worked in the editorial office for the Veritable Records during 1142–43.^[1]

Contents

The book contains 130 chapters (卷):^[2]

• Chapters 1–12: annals of emperors (帝紀), one chapter each for every Northern Song emperor (from Emperor Taizu of Song to Emperor Qinzong)
• Chapters 13–17: biographies of imperial relatives (世家)
• Chapters 18–122: biographies (列傳), including the empresses
• Chapters 123–130: supplementary monographs (附錄) about foreign countries: 2 chapters each for Liao dynasty, Jin dynasty, and Western Xia, and 1 chapter each for Tibet (Gusiluo regime) and Đại Việt (Ngô dynasty, Đinh dynasty, Early Lê dynasty, and Lý dynasty)

References

1. Haeger, J. W. (1978). "Tung-tu shih-lüeh". In Balazs, Etienne; Hervouet, Yves (eds.). A Sung Bibliography. The Chinese University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 962-201-158-6.
2. Theobald, Ulrich (2010-07-03). "Dongdu shilüe". Chinaknowledge.

External links

• "Historic Records of the East Capital of the Northern Song". World Digital Library. 2017-05-24.