Classical Bibliography for Chinese Historiography

Princeton University

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words and phrases

  • Ci hai 辭海. Revised edition by Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui. Hong Kong: Zhonghua shu ju, 1989.
  • Ci yuan 辭源. Revised edition by Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Henan i yuan xiu ding zu, and Shang wu yin shu guan bian ji bu. Beijing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1979-1984.
  • Ding Fubao 丁福保, compiler. Shuo wen jie zi gu lin 說文解字詁林. Shanghai: Yu wen shu ju, 1930.
  • Duan Yucai 段玉裁. Shuo wen jie zi zhu 說文解字注. : Yi wen yin shu guan, 1970.
  • Fu Dingyi 符定一, compiler. Lian mian zi dian 聯綿字典.S Beijing: Jing hua yin shu ju, 1943.
  • Guo yu ci dian 國語辭典. Compiled by the Zhongguo ci dian bian zuan chu 中國辭典編纂處. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1948. Originally published in 1943 in 8 volumes. Frequently reprinted. Now available in abbreviated single volume called Han yu ci dian 漢語辭典 and by other names.
  • He Cho 何焯, et al, compilers. Pian zi lei bian 駢字類編. Completed in 1726.
  • Hoshi Ayao 星斌夫, compiler. Chugoku shakai keizaishi goi 中國社會經濟史語匯. Kindai Chugoku kenkyu senta, 1966. Social and economic terms.
  • Hu Yingyuan 胡應元 . Zhongguo shi xue ci hui 中國史學辭匯 (Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Historical Terminology). Taibei : Hua xiang yuan chu ban she, 1992.
  • Kangxi zi dian 康熙字典. Compiled under imperial auspices by Zhang Yushu 張玉書, Chen Tingjing 陳廷敬 et al. Completed 1716.
  • Kondo Moku 近藤疼, compiler. Chugoku gakugei daijiten 中國學藝大辭典. Tokyo: Motomoto sha, 1959.
  • Kuraishi Takeshiro, compiler. 仓石武四郎Iwanami Chugokugo jiten 岩波中國語辭典. Iwanami Shoten, 1963. Modern literary terms.
  • Lu Danan 陸澹安, compiler. Xiao shuo ci yu hui shi 小說辭語匯釋 . Shanghai: Zhonghua shu ju, 1964. Classical novels and fiction.
  • Morohashi Tetsuji 諸橋轍次 , compiler. Dai kanwa jiten 大漢和辭典 . 13 vols. Tokyo: Taishokan shoten, 1955-60. New edition, published in 1984-1986.
  • Han-Han tae sajŏn 漢韓大辭典 (Great Chinese-Korean dictionary; Seoul: Tan’guk Taehakkyo ch’ulp’anbu, 1999-2008; sixteen volumes): Similar to the Dai Kan-Wa jiten 大漢和辞典 (Great Chinese-Japanese dictionary) in its presentation of definitions and citing of sources; the preface (vol. 1, p. 2) to the dictionary explicitly relates the Han-Han tae sajŏn with Morohashi’s 諸橋 dictionary. The Han-Han tae sajŏn does not cite any Korean sources, and is no more useful for research on the Chosŏn than are other general dictionaries of Classical Chinese.
  • Han’guk hanchaŏ sajŏn 韓國漢字語辭典 (Dictionary of Korean classical Chinese; Seoul: Tan’guk Taehakkyo ch’ulp’anbu, 1992-1996; four volumes): Explicitly a dictionary of Classical Chinese as it was used in Korea, citing only Korean sources as basis for its definitions. The dictionary’s vernacular Korean explanations are more elaborate than those in the Han-Han tae sajŏn 漢韓大辭典, and its practice in citing sources is as rigorous as that found in Morohashi or its Korean counterpart Han-Han tae sajŏn. Han’guk hanchaŏ sajŏn is arguably the best dictionary for specifically Korean classical Chinese terms, although it is not comprehensive.
  • Pei Xuehai 裴學海. Gu shu xu zi ji shi 古書虛字集釋. Taibei: Guang wen shu ju, 1962.
  • Song Yuan yu yan ci dian 宋元語言辭典 (Song-Yuan dictionary of language). Shanghai, 1985.
  • Wang Yunwu 王 云 五 , compiler. Wang Yunwu da ci dian 王云五大辭典. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1956.
  • Wu Lianming 吳廉銘. Zhonghua cheng yu ci dian 中華成語詞典. Shanghai: Zhonghua shu ju, 1949.
  • Xiang Guangzhong 向光忠, compiler. Zhonghua cheng yu da ci dian 中華成語大詞典 . Changchun: Jilin wen shi chu ban she, 1986.
  • Xin Yi 辛夷 , & Cheng Zhiwei 成志偉, compilers. Zhonghua dian gu da ci dian 中華典故大詞典. Beijing: Yanshan chu ban she, 1991.
  • Zhang Yushu 張玉書, et al., compilers. Pei wen yun fu 佩文韻府. 7 vols. Published in 1711. Reprinted by Shanghai shang wu yin shu guan. Works consulting for classical allusions.
  • Zhang Zilie 張自烈, compiler. Zheng zi tong 正字通 . Useful for 4-corners codes of Chinese characters in an index organized by total stroke number.
  • Zheng Jingyi 鄭競毅, & Peng Shi 彭時, compilers. Fa lu da ci shu 法律大辭書. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1936. Old legal terms.
  • Zhong wen da ci dian 中文大辭典 (The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language). Compiled by the Zhong wen da ci dian bian zuan wei yuan hui 中文大辭典編纂委員會 . Taibei: Zhongguo wen hua yan jou suo, 1962-70. About 40 volumes; the most comprehensive dictionary in Chinese.
  • Zhongguo cong shu zong lu 中國叢書綜錄. Look under Collectanea.
  • Zhuang Weisi (Wallace Johnson), compiler. Pian zi lei bian yin de 駢字類編引得. Taibei: Zong jing xiao si ku shu ju, 1966.

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