Classical Bibliography for Chinese Historiography

Princeton University

Period of Disunion (220-581 CE)

There is no general aid which provides translations of titles for this period, but they more or less followed those of the Han and in turn served as a basis for those of the Tang. There are a number of translations (See Hans H. Frankel,   Catalog of Translations from the Chinese Dynastic Histories   for the period 220-960. ) including the following, which are of some assistance:

  • Balazs, Etienne. Le traite economique du “Souei-Chou.” Leiden: Brill, 1953.
  • —. Le traite juridique du “Souei-Chou.” Leiden, Brill, 1954.
  • Bingham, Woodbridge. The Founding of the Tang Dynasty: The Fall of Sui and Rise of Tang, a Preliminary Survey. See especially Appendix C, “Outline of Sui Government, 607-618,” pp. 127-129.
  • Fang, Achilles, trans. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms (220-265). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952-65. Not much help.