Book of Liang

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The Book of Liang is an official Chinese historical text that chronicles the history, politics, and culture of the Liang dynasty as part of the standard dynastic histories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese historical text
official history
standard Chinese dynastic history
associatedDynastyOfCompilation Tang dynasty GENERATED
belongsTo Twenty-Four Histories NERFINISHED
category Chinese classic text
medieval Chinese historiography
ChineseName 梁書 NERFINISHED
compiler Yao Cha NERFINISHED
Yao Silian NERFINISHED
completionCentury 7th century
countryOfOrigin China
dynastyCovered Liang dynasty NERFINISHED
genre biographical history
dynastic history
historicalPeriod Southern Dynasties NERFINISHED
historicalValue primary source for Liang dynasty history
includes biographies of foreign peoples
biographies of officials
imperial annals of Liang emperors
treatises on astronomy
treatises on geography
treatises on music
treatises on rites
influencedBy Book of Han NERFINISHED
Book of Song NERFINISHED
Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED
language Classical Chinese NERFINISHED
literaryStyle Classical Chinese prose
mainCompiler Yao Silian NERFINISHED
notableFor accounts of Buddhism in the Liang dynasty
descriptions of foreign states
periodCoveredEnd 557
periodCoveredStart 502
predecessorInSeries Book of Qi NERFINISHED
preliminaryCompiler Yao Cha NERFINISHED
romanization Liáng Shū NERFINISHED
structure annals
biographies
treatises
subject culture of the Liang dynasty
history of the Liang dynasty
politics of the Liang dynasty
successorInSeries Book of Chen NERFINISHED
usedAsSourceBy later Chinese historians

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