History of Southern Dynasties

The History of Southern Dynasties (Chinese: 南史; pinyin: Nánshǐ) is one of the official Chinese historical works in the Twenty-Four Histories canon. It contain 80 volumes and covers the period from 420 to 589, the histories of Liu Song, Southern Qi, Liang Dynasty, and Chen Dynasty. Like the History of Northern Dynasties, the book was started by Li Dashi. Following his death, Li Yanshou, son of Li Dashi completed the work on the book between 643 to 659. As a historian, Li Yanshou also took part of some of the compilation during the early Tang Dynasty. Unlike the many other contemporary historical texts, the book was not commissioned by the state.

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Text of the History of Southern Dynasties, available from National Sun Yat-sen University.

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.)

History of Southern Dynasties

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