By Denis Twitchett
This publication describes how the chinese language executive, among approximately 620 and 850, constructed an reliable association designed to pick, approach, and edit fabric for inclusion in professional ancient works ultimately to be included in an professional historical past of the dynasty. the 1st half supplies a close account of the institution of the authentic gear designed to supply a list of the T'ang dynasty, which might stay average for greater than a millennium, with a few research of the people who served in those workplaces. the second one half offers all to be had aspect in regards to the numerous works produced by way of this equipment, divided between its a number of genres, and directory all identified titles, their authorship, and their relationships to each other. The 3rd half indicates the cumulative procedure in which a dynastic background got here into being, and how during which we will discover a variety of components within the accomplished background.
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The work on the Chin shu seems to have been begun in 644 and completed in 646. The edict ordering its compilation is dated 646 in TTCLC 81, however, so the dates given elsewhere may possibly be incorrect. 68 It is also quite possible that the Palace Department of the Imperial Library and the Historiographical Office were not in fact completely separate entities at this time. Li Hua (see WYYH 799, p. 4a) says that the Historiographical Office was set up early in the reign of T'ai-tsung to undertake the histories of the five former dynasties, and that many of the historians appointed to it were secretaries from the Office of Literary Composition.
1089-90. 93 WTHY 18, p. 293, gives the responsible office as the Imperial Observatory (Ssu-t'ien t'ai), which replaced the T'ai-shih chii in 757. 27 The bureaucratic apparatus Sacrifices [T'ai-ch'ang ssu] should draw up an account of those responsible, and of the words and music, and report it. Establishment and suppression of Prefectures and Counties; the granting of marks of distinction to "filial and righteous families":94 The Board of Finance [Hu-pu] should report such matters whenever they occur.
The record began with the Court Diaries (Ch'i-chu chu) and the Administrative Record {Shih-cheng chi), the material which was successively compiled into a Daily Calendar (Jih-li) for each year, then into a Veritable Record (Shih-lu) for each reign, into a full-scale National History (Kuo shih) of the reigning dynasty, and finally after the dynasty had fallen and had been replaced by its successor into the Standard History (Cheng shih) of its period. The Standard History comprised two essential components: the basic annals (pen-chi) and the biographies (lieh-chuan), the latter including entries on various foreign peoples.