Editor’s Foreword (Jon Woronoff)
Preface
Pronunciation Guide for Difficult Chinese Characters
Conventions, Symbols, and Oft-used Chinese Terms
Abbreviations
Map 1. Three Kingdoms, ad 262. Based on Tan v. 3:3–4.
Map 2. Western Jin, ad 281. Based on Tan v. 3:33–34.
Map 3. Later Qin, Western Qin, Northern Wei and others, ad 409.
Based on Tan v. 4:15–16.
Map 4. Liu-Song and Northern Wei, ad 449. Based on Tan v.
4:17–18.
Map 5. Qi and Northern Wei, ad 497. Based on Tan v. 4:19–20.
Map 6. Liang, Eastern Wei, and Western Wei, ad 546. Based on Tan v.
4:21–22.
Map 7. Chen, Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou, ad 572. Based on Tan
v. 4:23–24.
Map 8. Sui Dynasty, ad 612. Based on Tan v. 5:3–4.
Map 9. Tang Dynasty (1), ad 741. Based on Tan v. 5:34–35.
Map 10. Tang Dynasty (2), ad 820. Based on Tan v. 5:38–39.
Map 11. Five Dynasties, mid-10th century ad. Based on Tan v.
5:82–83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 93.
Index to Maps 1–11
Dynastic Periods
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Bibliography
Reign Periods
About the Author
Victor Cunrui Xiong is currently professor of history at Western Michigan University. He is Author of five books (including three monographs and a novel).
Covering an extensive period—from the end of Han in the late second
century to the beginning of Song in the late tenth—this updated
edition features historical figures, places, events, movements,
agencies and offices, works of art and literature, and more. The
volume contains maps of China during the various dynastic periods,
a lengthy introduction, a chronology, and other supporting
materials. Historian Xiong author of Emperor Yang of the Sui
Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy, has added more than 1,500 new
entries with extensive cross-references to the approximately 5,000
entries of the 2009 first edition (reissued in paperback as The A
to Z of Medieval China in 2010). The author has also expanded the
chronology and updated the bibliography with recent scholarship.
Entries are typically a few lines to a half page long, and each
provides the Chinese characters for the term, approximate dates
when relevant, geographical area, a brief definition or
explanation, and reference to Chinese sources when applicable.
Thematic entries, many new in this second edition, are longer—from
a half page (e.g., ‘nobility’) to three pages (e.g., ‘literature’).
The work is a commendable undertaking and a valuable reference tool
for Chinese studies.
Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced students through
researchers/faculty.
*CHOICE*
This two-volume book is now in its second edition, and is perhaps
the most comprehensive dictionary on medieval China available. Over
1,500 new entries have been added and errors from the first edition
have been corrected. More coverage of county and local governments
has been included, more historical figures added, substantial
thematic content on a number of topics has been expanded, homonymic
place-names have been separated, extensive cross-references with
see and see also related terms are now available, the chronology
and the bibliography have been lengthened, and a pronunciation
guide for difficult Chinese characters is now available. Eleven
maps are included in the front of the book, along with an extensive
index to locate important cities, towns, etc. in medieval China
from 262 C.E. to the mid-10th century. An appendix includes the
various reigns from the late second century to the 10th century,
listed alphabetically rather than chronologically. Overall, this is
an essential reference guide to medieval China, and would be
appropriate in any college and university library.
*American Reference Books Annual*
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