Liu Song (A.D. 420-479)

a.  Reference

Yuan, Yingguang 袁英光, et al. eds. Nanchao wu shi cidian 南朝五史辭典 [Dictionary to the Five Standard Histories of the Southern Dynasties]. Jinan Shi : Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe, 2005.


b. History

Bielenstein, Hans. "The Six Dynasties," Vol. I,  BMFEA 68 (1996):5-324; Vol. II, BMFEA 69 (1997):5-246. Volume I covers the political history of the Southern Dynasties; Volume II is arranged topically. Relies mainly on the dynastic histories.

Crowell, William G.  "Northern Émigrés and the Problems of Census Registration under the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties."  In Albert E. Dien, ed. State and Society in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990, 171-209.

c. Literature

Classics:

Historiography:

Egan, Ronald C. "The Prose Style of Fan Yeh," HJAS 39.2  (Dec. 1979): 339-401.

Mather, Richard B.  The Poet Shen Yüeh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.1988.  Chapter 4 deals with Shen’s compiling the History of the Song (Song shu).

Song shu:

Shen Yue 沈約 (441-513).  Song shu 宋書 [History of the (Liu) Song Dynasty]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974.

Poetry:

Berkowitz, Alan J. "The Last Piece in the Wen Xuan, Wang Sengda's 'Offering for Imperial Household Grandee Yan,'" EMC 10-11.1 (2004): 177-201.

Prose:

Yang Yong 楊勇.  Shi shuo xin yu jiao jian 世說新語校箋 [New Tales of the World with Collated Notes]. Taibei: Zhengwen shuju, 2000.

Mather, Richard B., trans., Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World.  2nd edition.  Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies 95.  Ann Arbor, 2002. This is a completely revised version of Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976.

d. Thought

Bokenkamp, Stephen. "Lu Xiujing, Buddhism, and the First Daoist Canon."  In Pearce et al eds., Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600, 181-99.

e.  Society

Kawai Yasushi 川合安.  "Ryū Yū no kakumei to Namchō kizokusei"  劉鋊の革命と南朝貴族制 [Liu Yu's Revolt and the Southern Dynasty Aristocracy],  Tōhoku daigaku Tōyōshi ronshū  東北大学東洋史論集 9: 131-58.

f.  Electronic Texts of Primary Sources:

Song shu  宋書 electronic text.  Scripta Sinica searchable text and commentary of Shen Yue’s Song shuBased on the Zhonghua shuju punctuated edition.  May be accessed through the 二十五史 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3  Simplified character version http://www.cnread.net/cnread1/lszl/s/shenyue/ss/index.html

 Shishuo xinyu 世說新語 electronic text. Scripta Sinica searchable text of Liu Yiqing's (403-444) Shishuo xinyu.  Can be accessed through the 人文資料庫師生版1.1 link at http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3


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