Official History of Australia in the War Volume V

1937 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
G. D. Mitchell ◽  
C. E. W. Bean
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Author(s):  
Charles Hartman ◽  
Anthony DeBlasi

This chapter discusses how the full emergence of the centralized, aristocratic state in the seventh century brought about an official historiography that was part of the bureaucracy of that state. Beginning in the Tang, each dynastic court maintained an office of historiography. Over time, a regularized process evolved that, in theory and often in reality, turned the daily production of court bureaucratic documents into an official history of the dynasty. Although this process was ongoing throughout the dynasty, the final, standard ‘dynastic history’ was usually completed after the dynasty's demise by its successor state. Indeed, the very concept of a series of dynastic histories that, taken together, would present an official history of successive, legitimate Chinese states, dates from the eleventh century.


2006 ◽  
Vol CXXI (490) ◽  
pp. 260-264
Author(s):  
Michael Howard
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