Shǔ Lǐ Shū 蜀李書
Book of Shu and Li by 常璩
About the work
Shǔ Lǐ Shū 蜀李書 (also titled Cháng Qú Shǔ Lǐ Shū 常璩蜀李書) is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a lost historical work by 常璩 (Cháng Qú, fl. mid-4th c. CE), the Eastern Jin historian best known for the Huáyáng Guó Zhì 華陽國志 (Records of the States South of Mount Hua). The Shǔ Lǐ Shū appears to have been a history of the state of Chéng-Hàn 成漢 (the Lǐ 李 clan regime in Sichuan, 304–347 CE), supplementing the account in the Huáyáng Guó Zhì.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
Cháng Qú was a native of Jiāngyuán 江原 in Shǔ 蜀 Commander (modern Sìchuān). He served as an official under the Chéng-Hàn regime before its conquest by the Eastern Jin in 347 CE, then moved to the Jin court at Jiànkāng 建康, where he compiled the Huáyáng Guó Zhì — the earliest surviving regional history of Southwest China. The Shǔ Lǐ Shū was a separate, more focused treatment of the Lǐ clan’s rule over Sichuan. The Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography records it.
The surviving fragments are brief, preserved in Táng and Sòng citations. They include details on the Lǐ clan’s administration of the Shǔ region not found in the Huáyáng Guó Zhì or the official Jin histories. The text was lost after the Táng.
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