A Comprehensive Dictionary of Major Events in Chinese History

Author: Zhang Haipeng
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Publishing Date: 2000-07-01
Features: This book explains important historical events and figures in Chinese history in the form of entries, showcasing thousands of years of civilization in the Chinese nation. The editor-in-chief of this book is a renowned historian in China, and nearly 100 contributors are all young and middle-aged historians. The book took nearly a decade to compile and was revised three times, making it highly academic in value.
Part One: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese History covers 3,707 entries on historical events from ancient times to the Opium War in the fields of politics, military, economy, cultural thought, ethnic relations, and foreign relations.
Part Two: The entries in the dictionary are arranged in chronological order. They are first divided into seven parts: Pre-Qin, Qin and Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song, Southern Song, Liao, Western Xia, Jin, Yuan, and Ming and Qing. Each part is further organized by the chronological order of historical events. Cultural and intellectual entries are placed at the end.
Part Three: The dictionary includes two indexes: a preface entry index and a postface stroke index. The preface entry index is arranged by chronological order and content categories, while the postface stroke index is organized by the number of strokes in the entries.
Part Four: The font used in the dictionary follows the "Total List of Simplified Chinese Characters" compiled by the Chinese Character Committee. The text is written in modern Chinese.
Part Five: Each dynasty in the dictionary is preceded by a comprehensive introduction, accompanied by a genealogy table of the dynasty for reference.
Part Six: All historical place names in the dictionary are annotated with their modern names upon their first appearance.
Part Seven: All historical dates in the dictionary are recorded using the reign names of emperors, with corresponding Common Era dates noted in parentheses.
Part Eight: Numbers in the dictionary are generally written in Arabic numerals, except for dates in historical records and numbers quoted from historical texts, which are written in uppercase.