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Chinese Literature
Historical excerpts (shichao 史鈔)
The type of historical excerpts (shichao lei 史鈔類) is a sub-category to the literary category of historiography (shibu 史部) in the collectaneum Siku quanshu 四庫全書. It was introduced as a category during the Yuan dynasty 元 (1206/79-1368). Historical excerpts can be extractions from one book, like Ge Hong's 葛洪 Hanshu chao 漢書鈔 and Zhang Mian's 張緬 Jinshu chao 晉書鈔, or extractions from a whole series of books, like Lü Zuqian's 呂祖謙 Shiqishi xiangjie 十七史詳節. The section of historical excerpts in the Siku quanshu includes three books, for example, the Liang-Han bowen 兩漢博聞.

書名 Title Composer(s)
兩漢博聞 Liang-Han bowen (Song) 楊侃 Yang Kan
通鑑總類 Tongjian zonglei (Song) 沈樞 Shen Shu
南史識小錄 Nanshi shixiaolu (Qing) 沈名蓀 Shen Mingsun, 朱昆田 Zhu Kuntian

* not contained in the Siku quanshu
Chinese literature according to the four-category system

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