Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu)

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 Introduction  (Daniel P. Morgan, Damien Chaussende)....Pages 1-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
 The Life and Intellectual World of Li Chunfeng (602–670)  (Howard L. Goodman)....Pages 29-49
 Numbers with Histories: Li Chunfeng on Harmonics and Astronomy  (Daniel P. Morgan, Howard L. Goodman)....Pages 51-87
 Scholarship and Politics in Seventh Century China from the Viewpoint of Li Chunfeng’s Writing on Histories  (Yiwen Zhu)....Pages 89-116
 The Compilation of the Astronomical Portion of the ‘Treatise on Harmono-Metrology and Mathematical Astronomy’ and Its Impact  (Liang Li)....Pages 117-141
 Heavenly Patterns  (Daniel P. Morgan)....Pages 143-179
 The ‘Treatise on the Wuxing’ (Wuxing zhi)  (Michael Nylan)....Pages 181-233
Front Matter ....Pages 235-235
 The Treatise on Economics and Its Influences  (Béatrice L’Haridon)....Pages 237-257
 The Treatise on Law  (Frédéric Constant)....Pages 259-286
 Intertextuality, Customs and Regionalism in the ‘Geographical Treatise’  (Alexis Lycas)....Pages 287-322
 The Art of Producing a Catalogue: The Meaning of ‘Compilations’ for the Organisation of Ancient Knowledge in Tang Times  (Pablo Ariel Blitstein)....Pages 323-341
 Epilogue: Treatises According to Tang Historian Liu Zhiji  (Damien Chaussende)....Pages 343-357
Back Matter ....Pages 359-371