History of the Jin

The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. The annals of Zhangzong (juan 9 to 12; the Cheng'an era, 1196 to 1200, falls in juan 11) record the court at Zhongdu, the Jin and Kereyit war on the Tatars in 1196, Wanyan Xiang's northern campaigns, the frontier walls and the Onggud wardens, Yellow River floods and relief, the exchange of embassies with the Song and Xia, and the court's turn toward Chinese ritual and literature. The treatises give the army, the meng'an and mouke households, the Khitan and Xi, and the frontier posts; juan 134 (Xia) and juan 135 (Goryeo) are the Jin view of its two tributaries. Terse, but the best dated record for the Jin year 1200.

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Title: Jin shi (金史)
Author: Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers
Author's dates: Toqto'a 1314 to 1356
Written: 1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history
Language: Chinese
Covers: 1115 to 1234; 135 juan
Kind: History

No English translation exists beyond extracts. The division of the Zhangzong annals between juan 11 and 12 should be checked against the table of contents; juan 11 is cited here for 1196 to 1200. The Jin shi reads the Tatars and Mongols only as a frontier nuisance, which is how the court saw them in 1200.

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