Author | Endymion Wilkinson |
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Original title | The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide |
Language | English |
Published | 2022
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Publisher | Harvard University Asia Center |
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ISBN | 978-0-674-26018-4 |
Chinese History: A New Manual | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 中國歷史新手册 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中国历史新手册 | ||||||||
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Chinese History: A New Manual (Chinese: 中國歷史新手册; pinyin: Zhōngguó lìshǐ xīn shǒucè), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an encyclopedic and bibliographic guide to Sinology and Chinese history. The New Manual lists and describes published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from pre-history to the twenty-first century, as well as selected up-to-date scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. Since its first appearance in a preliminary 1973 version, Wilkinson's manual has been continuously in print; it was most recently published in a 6th, 50-year Anniversary edition for 2022.
The New Manual includes detailed annotations that evaluate reference and research tools and outline the 25 ancillary disciplines required for the study of Chinese history. Introductions to each of the chapters and interspersed short essays give encyclopedic and often witty summaries of major topics for specialists and general readers, as well as directives on the uses of history and avoidance of error in thought and analysis. It received the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014 in recognition of outstanding scholarship on Asian culture.