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type	work
name	資治通鑑
authority-wikidata	Q207062
link-wikipedia_zh	資治通鑑
link-wikipedia_en	Zizhi_Tongjian
creator	person:司馬光	《四庫全書總目提要·卷47 史部·編年類》：宋司馬光撰，元胡三省音注。
creator	person:胡三省	《四庫全書總目提要·卷47 史部·編年類》：宋司馬光撰，元胡三省音注。
role 音注
indexed-in	work:四庫全書總目提要	《四庫全書總目提要·卷47 史部·編年類》：《資治通鑒》二百九十四卷{{內府藏本}}
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stated-category 編年
indexed-in	work:四庫全書簡明目錄	《四庫全書簡明目錄·卷五》：《資治通鑒》二百九十四卷
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Zizhi Tongjian is a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography, published in 1084 AD during the Song dynasty in the form of a chronicle recording Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning almost 1400 years. The main text is arranged into 294 scrolls (juan [[:wiktionary:卷, equivalent to a chapter) totaling about 3 million Chinese characters.

In 1065 AD, Emperor Yingzong of Song commissioned his official Sima Guang (1019–1086 AD) to lead a project to compile a universal history of China, and granted him funding and the authority to appoint his own staff. His team took 19 years to complete the work and in 1084 AD it was presented to Emperor Yingzong's successor Emperor Shenzong of Song. It was well-received and has proved to be immensely influential among both scholars and the general public. Endymion Wilkinson regards it as reference quality: "It had an enormous influence on later Chinese historical writing, either directly or through its many abbreviations, continuations, and adaptations. It remains an extraordinarily useful first reference for a quick and reliable coverage of events at a particular time." , while Achilles Fang wrote "Tongjian, and its numerous re-arrangements, abridgments, and continuations, were practically the only general histories with which most of the reading public of pre-Republican China were famililar."

The text

The principal text of the Zizhi Tongjian of 294 scrolls is a year-by-year chronological narrative of the history of China, sweeping through many Chinese historical periods (Warring States, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties), supplemented with two sections of 30 scrolls each — tables mulu (目錄) and critical analysis kaoyi (考異).

Sima Guang departed from the format used in traditional Chinese dynastic histories which consisted primarily of annals (紀) of rulers, and biographies (傳) of officials. This represented a shift from a biographical style (紀傳體) to a chronological style (編年體). Guang himself wrote in a memorial to the Emperor: "Since I was a child I have ranged through histories. It has appeared to me that in the annal-biography form the words are so diffuse and numerous that even an erudite scholar who reads them again and again cannot comprehend and sort them out. ... I have constantly wished to write a chronological history roughly in accordance with the form of the Tso-chuan (左傳), starting with the Warring States and going down to the Five Dynasties, drawing on other books besides the Official Histories and taking in all that a ruler ought to know — matters which are related to the rise and fall of dynasties and connected with the joys and sorrows of the people, and of which the good can become a model and the evil a warning."

Initially, Sima Guang hired Liu Shu (劉恕) and Zhao Junxi as his main assistants, but Zhao was soon replaced by Liu Ban (劉攽), a Han history expert. In 1070 Emperor Shenzong approved Guang's request to add Fan Zuyu (范祖禹), a Tang history expert. Because Zizhi tongjian is a distillation from a large number (322) of disparate historical sources , the selection, drafting, and editing processes used in creating the work as well as potential political biases of Sima Guang, in particular, have been the subject of academic debate.

Derivative and commented works

In the 12th century, Zhu Xi produced a reworked, condensed version of Zizhi Tongjian, known as Tongjian Gangmu, or Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu (通鑒綱目). This version was itself later translated into Manchu as (Translteration: Tung giyan g'ang mu), upon the request of Qing Dynasty Kangxi Emperor. This Manchu version was itself translated into French by Jesuit missionary Joseph-Anna-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla. His twelve-volume translation, "Histoire générale de la Chine, ou Annales de cet Empire; traduit du Tong-kien-kang-mou par de Mailla" was published posthumously in Paris in 1777–1783. The condensed Zizhi Tongjian Gangmu was also the main source for "Textes Historiques", a political history of China from antiquity to 906CE published in 1929 by another French Jesuit missionary Léon Wieger.

The Zhonghua Shuju edition contains textual criticism made by Yuan Dynasty historian Hu Sanxing. The philosopher Wang Fuzhi also wrote a commentary on Tongjian, titled "Comments after reading the Tongjian" (讀通鑑論, "Du Tongjian Lun").

Historian Rafe de Crespigny has published annotated translations of chapters 54–59 and 59–69 under the titles "Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling" and "To Establish Peace" (Australian National University), respectively, covering 157–220 CE, building upon the publication of Achilles Fang's annotated translation of the next ten chapters (70–79) covering up to 265 CE. There are also self-published translations into English of Chapters 1–8, covering the years 403–207 BCE and some additional sections pertaining to the Xiongnu people.

The book consisted of 294 chapters, of which the following number describe each respective dynastic era:

• 5 chapters - Zhou (1046–256 BC)

• 3 chapters - Qin (221–207 BC)

• 60 chapters - Han (206 BC – 220 AD)

• 10 chapters - Wei (220–265)

• 40 chapters - Jin (266–420)

• 16 chapters - Liu Song (420–479)

• 10 chapters - Qi (479–502)

• 22 chapters - Liang (502–557)

• 10 chapters - Chen (557–589)

• 8 chapters - Sui (589–618)

• 81 chapters - Tang (618–907)

• 6 chapters - Later Liang (907–923)

• 8 chapters - Later Tang (923–936)

• 6 chapters - Later Jin (936–947)

• 4 chapters - Later Han (947–951)

• 5 chapters - Later Zhou (951–960)

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《資治通鑑》，簡稱《通鑑》，是中國著名古典編年史、北宋司馬光所主編的長篇編年體史書，共294卷，三百萬字。作者司馬光和他的重要助手劉恕、劉攽、范祖禹等人根據大量史料，花19年時間，才把從戰國到五代這段錯綜複雜之歷史寫成年經事緯之巨著。《通鑑》採用資料，除正史以外，所採雜史多至二百二十二種。記載的歷史由周威烈王二十三年（西元前403年）三家分晉（戰國時代）寫起，一直到五代的後周世宗顯德六年（西元959年）征淮南，計跨16個朝代，包括秦、漢、晉、隋、唐統一王朝和戰國七雄、曹魏蜀漢東吳三國、五胡十六國、南北朝、五代十國等等其他政權，共1362年的逐年記載詳細歷史。它是一部編年體通史，在中國史書中有重要的地位。《通鑑》一向為歷史學者所推崇，有很多人摹倣它，寫成同樣體裁之編年史，在中國的歷史編纂學上曾起過巨大影響。

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The text

Derivative and commented works

Contents

成書

助手

評註

體裁

涵蓋年代

釋例

史事評論

目錄

原稿

版本

寫作風格

影響

翻譯

缺失

侷限

失誤

失實

編年不當

剪裁不當與故意歪曲事實

資治通鑑[View] [Edit] [History]ctext:972491

The text

Derivative and commented works

Contents

成書

助手

評註

體裁

涵蓋年代

釋例

史事評論

目錄

原稿

版本

寫作風格

影響

翻譯

缺失

侷限

失誤

失實

編年不當

剪裁不當與故意歪曲事實

資治通鑑[View] [Edit] [History]
ctext:972491