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Traditional Chinese | 新唐書 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 新唐书 | ||||||||||||
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The New Book of Tang, generally translated as the "New History of the Tang" or "New Tang History", is a work of official history covering the Tang dynasty in ten volumes and 225 chapters. The work was compiled by a team of scholars of the Song dynasty, led by Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi.
It was originally simply called the Tangshu (Book of Tang) until the 18th century.