Description
In China it was customary for officials and scholars to write and rewrite the official history of the previous dynasties, as indicated by the large numbers of editions of such works in the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions. The original Chinese title of the work presented here reads in its entirety: Xin kan Xian tai kao zheng Song Yuan tong jian quan bian (Newly printed complete history of the Song and Yuan dynasties, edited by Your Excellency). It is a new Wanli (1573‒1620) edition of ...