Essays on the sources for Chinese history. Editors: Donald D. Leslie, Colin Mackerras [and] Wang Gungwu.

"Dedicated to Charles Patrick Fitzgerald by the Dept. of Far Eastern History, Australian National University, Canberra."

Includes bibliographies.

A personal tribute to C.P. FitzGerald / Wang Ling -- Charles Patrick FitzGerald, a selected bibliography / Lo Hui-Min -- Archaeological studies in China / Li Chi -- Oracle bones / Matsumaru Michio -- Pre-Han literature / Timoteus Pokora -- Wooden documents / Michael Loewe -- Standard histories, Han to Sui / K.H.J. Gardiner -- Some comments on the later standard histories / Wang Gungwu -- Universal histories / Rafe de Crespigny -- Local gazetteers / D.D. Leslie -- Unofficial regional records / Colin Mackerras -- Genealogical registers / Otto Berkelbach Van Der Sprenkel -- Legal sources / Derk Bodde -- The compilation and historical value of the Tao-tsang / Liu Ts'un-Yan -- The Tun-huang manuscripts / Fujieda Akira -- Tibetan sources / Josef Kolmas̆ -- Manchu sources / Joseph Fletcher -- Arabic sources / D.D. Leslie -- Western sources / Otto Berkelbach Van Der Sprenkel -- Jesuit sources / Paul A. Rule -- Russian sources / C. Kiriloff -- Some notes on archives on modern China / Lo Hui-Min -- Chinese newspapers / Josef Fass -- Sources on Kuomintang and republican China / Stephen Fitzgerald -- Sources on the history of the Chinese communist party / Chün-Tu Hsüeh -- Sources on the Chinese People's Republic / Bill Brugger -- Sources on the overseas Chinese / Png Poh-Seng -- Lexicology as a primary source material for the history of modern China / Jean Chesneaux.