Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government

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Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government is an 11th-century Chinese historical chronicle compiled under the Song dynasty to provide rulers with lessons from past political and military events.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese historical text
Song dynasty work
historical chronicle
alternateEnglishTitle Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government NERFINISHED
Comprehensive Mirror to Aid Governance NERFINISHED
centuryOfCompletion 11th century
commissionedBy Song imperial court NERFINISHED
compiler Fan Zuyu NERFINISHED
Liu Ban NERFINISHED
Liu Shu NERFINISHED
Sima Guang NERFINISHED
other Song scholars
countryOfOrigin China
dateOfCompletion 1084
dynasty Song dynasty NERFINISHED
emphasis moral evaluation of rulers and ministers
endYearCovered 959 AD
genre chronicle
hasCommentariesBy Zhu Xi NERFINISHED
includes events from Five Dynasties period
events from Han dynasty
events from Jin dynasty
events from Northern and Southern dynasties
events from Qin dynasty
events from Sui dynasty
events from Tang dynasty
events from Three Kingdoms period
events from Warring States period
influenceOn Japanese historiography
Korean historiography
later Chinese historiography
intendedAudience Chinese emperors
high officials
language Classical Chinese
narrativeScope military history
political history
numberOfVolumes 294
originalTitle 資治通鑑 NERFINISHED
patron Emperor Shenzong of Song NERFINISHED
Emperor Yingzong of Song NERFINISHED
philosophicalOrientation Confucian
placeOfCompilation Northern Song China NERFINISHED
purpose to provide rulers with lessons from past military events
to provide rulers with lessons from past political events
startYearCovered 403 BC
structure annalistic chronicle arranged by year
timeSpanCovered 403 BC–959 AD
transliteration Zizhi Tongjian NERFINISHED
usedAs didactic text for governance
manual of statecraft

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Zizhi Tongjian titleMeaning Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government