Essays on the Sources for Chinese History

Description

This volume is a guide to sources for the study of Chinese history. While making no claim to comprehensiveness, it ranges widely over various types and periods — oracle bones, standard histories, wooden documents, genealogical registers, and other sources from pre-Hahn to modern times and from peoples as diverse as the Tibetans and the French. The later chapters indicate sources for modern China and are invaluable for historians seeking information on such subjects as the early Communist Party and the Kuomintang.