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The New Book of Tang (simplified Chinese: 新唐书; traditional Chinese: 新唐書; pinyin: Xīn Tángshū; Wade–Giles: Hsin T'angshu), is a classic work of history about the Tang Dynasty edited by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi (宋祁) and other official scholars of the Song Dynasty. The emperor called for a revision of the former Book of Tang in 1044. The New Book was presented to the throne in 1060. It was given its name "Xin" ("new") to distinguish it from its predecessor. It has been canonised as among the Twenty-Four Histories.
Contents
Contents
Ouyang Xiu frequently invokes the principle of reason in evaluating historical accounts, and purges all accounts containing elements of myth or superstition.[1]
Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi both disliked the Tang Dynasty's style of flowery prose. They changed the original wordings in the documents that they quoted in the book. However, some of the changes they made did more harm than good as they made some of the sentences difficult to understand.
Biographies
Four biographies of women appear in this new book that were not present in the first Book of Tang. The women kill or maim themselves in horrible ways, and represent examples of Tang Dynasty women that were intended to deter contemporary readers from extreme behavior. For example, Woman Lu gouges her own eye out to assure her ailing husband that there will be no second man after him. Biographies of 35 overly filial and fraternal men are also included in the work, though these men do not resort to the extremes of female mutilation found in the female biographies.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Davis, Richard L. (2001). "Chaste and Filial Women in Chinese Historical Writings of the Eleventh Century". Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (2): 204–218. doi:10.2307/606561. JSTOR 606561.
External links
- Chronicles of the Chinese Dynasties, Twitchett, Official History under the T'ang, 191-236.
- Xu Elina-Qian, Historical Development of the Pre-Dynastic Khitan, University of Helsinki, 2005. 273 pages.
2.1 Introduction to the Sources on the Pre-dynastic Khitan (pp.19-23) > The Xin Tangshu, p.21-22
Twenty-Four Histories 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.)
Categories:- Chinese history texts
- 11th-century history books
- Historiography
- Tang Dynasty
- Song Dynasty literature
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