A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. For Huanzong (Li Chunyou, reigned 1193 to 1206; era Tianqing from 1194) it gathers the embassies to the Jin, the court's Buddhist works, the posture toward the Mongols and the coup of 1206, dated by Xia and Jin reign years. It is a compilation, not a primary text, but it is the only place the scattered Chinese notices for Xia in 1200 are put in order, and it cites its sources.
About this source
- Title
- Xi Xia shushi (西夏書事)
- Author
- Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成)
- Author's dates
- active 1820s
- Written
- 1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources
- Language
- Chinese
- Covers
- the Tangut rulers from the ninth century to 1227; 42 juan
- Kind
- Annals
Included although it is a nineteenth-century compilation because it is the working annal for Xia; every entry should be traced back to the Song shi, Jin shi or Yuan shi it cites. Tangut-language sources for the court of 1200 are limited to Buddhist colophons and the Khara-Khoto documents.
Where to read it
Editions
- Gong Shijun and Hu Yuebin (eds), Xi Xia shushi jiaozheng, Gansu Wenhua (1995) (not freely online)