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IV.B.3. Other Chronologies

For publishing:
a)

Z462.3.L537 2004x Zhongguo chuban biannian shi
中囯出版编年史
(A Chronology of Chinese Publishing)
Li Ruiliang 李瑞良
Fuzhou: Fujian renmin chubanshe, 2004.
This title includes an extensive chronology of Song publishing (pp. 239-371).
b)
Z462.3.L537 2004x Zhongguo shu wenhua yaolan. Gudai bufen
中国书文化要览. 古代部份
(Essentials of Chinese Book Culture. The Pre-Modern Part)
Shi Jinyan 施金炎
Changsha: Hunan jiaoyu chubanshe, 1992.
This chronology of major events in publishing covers the Song period in detail (pp. 120-203) and includes subject, name and title indexes.

For intellectual culture, see:

R1022/4225
LoC: B126 .M33 (Orien China)
Sung Yuan li‑hsueh‑chia chu‑shu sheng‑tsu nien‑piao
Ref (C) B127.N4 M34 宋元理學家著書生卒年表
1968x (Chronology of the writings and dates of birth and death of Sung and Yuan Neo‑Confucians).
Mai Chung‑kuei 麥仲貴
Hong Kong: Chinese University, 1968. 443, 20 p.

In addition to Neo-Confucians, this work notes important literary figures, classicists, historians, and so on, as well as events in intellectual and cultural history. Also for Sung Confucianism, or "Sung Learning," note the three sets of time-lines for important figures during Northern Sung, Southern Sung, and Chu Hsi's lifetime appended to:
BJ1042/8531 Sōgaku kenkyū bunken mokuroku
宋學研究文獻目錄
(Bibliography of research on Sung Confucianism).
Imai Usaburō 今井宇三郎
Tokyo: Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku Kanbungaku kenkyūshitsu, 1959. 25 p.
The following work lists the dates of major Song Neo-Confucian scholars and the publication dates for their work. It also includes major events in the history of Confucian scholarship.
  Song Yuan Ming Qing ruxue nianbiao
宋元明清儒學年表
(A Chronology of Song, Yuan and Ming Confucianism)
Imazeki Tenpō 今関壽麿(天彭)
Tōkyō, 1919. Rpt. Beijing: Beijing tushuguan chubanshe, 2002.

For chronologies centered on shih and tz'u poetry respectively, see:

5214.5/7255 Sung shih chien-shang tz'u-tien
宋時鑒賞辭典
(Guide to Sung shih poetry).
Shanghai: Shang-hai tz'u-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1987, pp. 1487-1532.
5577/4089 Sung tz'u chien-shang tz'u-tien
宋詞鑒賞辭典
(Guide to Sung tz'u poetry).
Ho Hsin-hui 賀新輝 ed.
Peking: Pei-ching Yen-shan ch'u-pan-she, 1987, pp. 1211-1255.

For foreign relations, see:
LoC: DS740.4 .H297 1983 Tribute Missions to China, 960-1126.
Robert Hartwell.
Philadelphia: by the author, 1983. 215 p.

Organized by state; notes duration of mission, envoys, purpose, and sequence of events. The section on Japan was still in progress when the 1983 edition appeared.

  Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World 589-1276
Hans Bielenstein
Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Offers detailed descriptions of tribute missions and goods traded during such missions between Sui and Song times. Organized chronologically by state.

For a general chronology covering politics, science and technology as well as economics and everyday life, see

DS33 .C63 2000X Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture
John Stewart Bowman
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvi, 751 p.

The relevant passages are on pp. 28-36, 105-107.


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