Zhào Shū 趙書 (Wú Dǔ)
Book of Zhao, by Wu Du by 吳篤
About the work
Zhào Shū 趙書 by Wú Dǔ 吳篤 is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a lost history of the Hòu Zhào 後趙 state (319–351 CE), a companion or alternative to the Zhào Shū by Tián Róng 田融 (KR4k0377). The surviving fragments are extremely few — only a handful of lines — but they represent a separate historiographical tradition for the short-lived Jié-ruled empire.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
Wú Dǔ is otherwise unknown; the Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography records a Zhào Shū in 10 juǎn attributed to him (the same length as Tián Róng’s work), but no further biographical information is preserved. The surviving fragments are too meager to characterize the original’s scope or to distinguish it from Tián Róng’s parallel account. Both texts were lost after the Táng and survive only in the scattered citations assembled by Qīng-period jíyìběn scholars.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.