Book of Jin

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The Book of Jin (Chinese: 晉書) is one of the official Chinese historical works. It covers the history of Jin Dynasty from 265 to 420, which written by a number of officials commissioned by the court of Tang Dynasty, with the lead editor being the Prime Minister Fang Xuanling, drawing mostly from the official documents left from the earlier archives. A few of the essays in the biographical volume 1, 3, 54 and 80th were composed by Emperor Taizong of Tang himself. Its contents, however, included not only history of Jin but also the history of the Sixteen Kingdoms which were contemporaneous with the Eastern Jin. The book was compiled in 648.

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• Twenty-Four Histories

v • d • e Twenty-Four Histories Records of the Grand Historian (Sima Qian) | Book of Han (Ban Gu) | Book of the Later Han (Fan Ye) | Records of Three Kingdoms (Chen Shou) | Book of Jin (Fang Xuanling et al) | Book of Song (Shen Yue) | Book of Qi (Xiao Zixian) | Book of Liang (Yao Silian) | Book of Chen (Yao Silian) | Book of Wei (Wei Shou) | Book of Northern Qi (Li Baiyao) | Book of Zhou (Linghu Defen et al) | Book of Sui (Wei Zheng et al) | History of Southern Dynasties (Li Yanshou) | History of Northern Dynasties (Li Yanshou) | Book of Tang (Liu Xu et al) | New Book of Tang (Ouyang Xiu et al) | Five Dynasties History (Xue Juzheng et al) | New History of the Five Dynasties (Ouyang Xiu) | History of Song (Toktoghan et al) | History of Liao (Toktoghan et al) | History of Jin (Toktoghan et al) | History of Yuan (Song Lian et al) | History of Ming (Zhang Tingyu et al)