The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Juan 485 to 486 give the Xia from Li Jiqian to the Mongol conquest, with the reigns of Renzong and Huanzong (the ruler in 1200) only sketched because the Song had lost its border with Xia to the Jin. Juan 487 gives Goryeo (embassies lapse after the 1160s), juan 488 Jiaozhi (Dai Viet under the Ly, with Ly Cao Tong's titles), juan 489 Champa and Cambodia and the Javanese and Srivijayan ports, juan 491 Japan and Liuqiu, juan 492 the Tibetan and Qinghai peoples, and juan 493 to 496 the southern chiefs on the loose rein and Dali. Useful for titles, tribute dates and the Song view; thin for the years just around 1200 in most sections.
About this source
- Title
- Song shi (宋史), juan 485 to 496: the Xia and the foreign states
- Author
- Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office
- Author's dates
- Toqto'a 1314 to 1356
- Written
- 1343 to 1345
- Language
- Chinese
- Covers
- 960 to 1279; these chapters cover the Tangut Xia (juan 485 to 486) and the foreign states from Goryeo to the Arabs (juan 487 to 496)
- Kind
- History
The Song shi is the hastiest of the three Yuan histories. The Xia chapters are translated into Russian in Kychanov's work and partly into English in Dunnell's studies, none free. The Goryeo chapter rarely reaches past the 1170s; the Japan chapter stops with the monks' visits of the eleventh century and later notices are brief.
Where to read it
Editions
- Zhonghua Shuju punctuated edition, 40 vols (1977) (not freely online)
Read it online
- Song shi, juan 485 (Xia 1) on Chinese Wikisource
- Song shi, juan 486 (Xia 2) on Chinese Wikisource
- Song shi, juan 487 (foreign states 3: Goryeo) on Chinese Wikisource
- Song shi, juan 491 (foreign states 7: Japan, Liuqiu and others) on Chinese Wikisource
About the source
Realms this source covers in 1200
- Great Xia, the Tangut empire
- The Southern Song of Zhao Kuo (Ningzong)
- Goryeo under King Sinjong and the Choe house
- The court at Kyoto and its provinces
- The chiefs of the Ryukyu islands
- Dai Viet under Ly Cao Tong
- Champa under Suryavarmadeva
- The Khmer empire of Jayavarman VII
- The kingdom of Dali
- Chieftaincies of the south and south-west, on the loose rein
- Kediri (Panjalu) under Kertajaya
- Palembang, the Musi port-state
- The Uyghur kingdom of Qocho and Beshbaliq
- The oasis lordships of the Tarim, vassals of the Qara Khitai
- The Tibetan lands: houses, monasteries and clan chiefs, with no king