Qian Hai Yue "Ming Shi Ji" Reading Notes

The " History of Nan Ming "written by Wu Xi Qian Haiyue, in order to free form record in three dynasties and the supervision of the king during the historical figures. It is a total of one hundred and twenty volumes, including biographic sketches of emperors, chronicles, table and biographies four parts. Qian Haiyue was under his father’s influence and guidance, wanted to write one kind of unique " History of Nan Ming ".In the course of his writing, Zhu Xizu, Liu Yagi and Gu Jie-gang offered some supports and help. In the same time, Qian Haiyue himself worked a few years like a day, making the book of high historical value. Due to be published later, genre specific contents, and other reasons, only few scholars of domestic and foreign to research Qian Haiyue’s " History of Nan Ming ". But we believe that, along with the history of the Ming Dynasty in-depth study, as the study of the history of Nan Ming important historical materials, it will provide more scholars to understand, study and application. As you know, Ming Dynasty history itself is perplexing, and claims of numerous. In addition, many references to historical materials of the book, so that there are still some problems need us to study. This project only to China Book Company2006point school makes, mainly using proofreading methods such as historical facts, text, found the errors correction, revision. Due to the " History of Nan Ming " contains too much content, and time is limited, we only put the chronicles section as the research object, which includes four parts, mainly doing on the text, historical textual criticism and textual research.