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The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese: 二十四史; pinyin: Èrshísì Shǐ; Wade-Giles: Erhshihszu Shih) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of protohistory and history from 3000 BC to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is often considered an authoritative source of traditional Chinese history and culture, and is used for research on literature, art, music, science, military affairs, geography, ethnography and other subjects.[citation needed]

Typically, after collecting credible sources, these canonical history records were produced in the next dynasty by officially organized editing, revising, and collating. It is officially considered as an officer's job failure for every factual error left in the published records. Therefore, compared to "personally made history" (稗史), they are considered as "credible history" (信史) by most professional history researchers.

Contents

Books of the Twenty-Four Histories

Inheritance works

These works were begun by one historian and completed by an heir in the next generation.

Related works

Modern editions

In China, the Zhonghua Shuju have edited a number of these Histories. These sets (or editions) are appreciated because they have been carefully collated and edited (punctuated) by the Chinese specialists. Therefore, these editions are believed to be relatively reliable, and easy to read and understand.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Xu Elina-Qian, p.23
  2. ^ Xu Elina-Qian, p.19

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Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian) | Book of Han (Ban Gu) | Book of the Later Han (Fan Ye) | Records of 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 Southern Dynasties (Li Yanshou) | History of Northern Dynasties (Li Yanshou) | Book of Tang (Liu Xu et al.) | New Book of Tang (Ouyang Xiu et al.) | Five Dynasties History (Xue Juzheng et al.) | New History of the Five Dynasties (Ouyang Xiu) | History of Song (Toktoghan et al.) | History of Liao (Toktoghan et al.) | History of Jin (Toktoghan et al.) | History of Yuan (Song Lian et al.) | History of Ming (Zhang Tingyu et al.)
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