The ''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' ( vi-hantu, 欽定越史通鑑綱目, lit. "The Imperially Ordered Annotated Text Completely Reflecting the History of Viet") was a history of Vietnam commissioned by the emperor
Tự Đức of the
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...
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[Keith Weller Taylor The Birth of Vietnam 1991 - Page 359 "The Kham dinh Viet su thong giam cuong muc (Imperially Ordered Annotated Text Completely Reflecting the History of Viet) was initially assembled in 1856-59 and thereafter revised and annotated in 1871, 1872, 1876, and 1878 (Cadiere and ..."] It was written in
Văn ngôn
Literary Chinese ( Vietnamese: 文言, 古文 or 漢文) was the medium of all formal writing in Vietnam for almost all of the history of the country up to the early 20th century, when it was replaced by vernacular writing in Vietnamese usin ...
(which is a form of
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese (古文 ''gǔwén'' "ancient text", or 文言 ''wényán'' "text speak", meaning
"literary language/speech"; modern vernacular: 文言文 ''wényánwén'' "text speak text", meaning
"literar ...
used in Vietnam).
Emperor
Tự Đức's interest in history led him to order the creation of this book in 1856. He appointed
Phan Thanh Giản
Phan Thanh Giản ( vi-hantu, ; , November 11, 1796– August 4, 1867) was a Grand Counsellor at the Nguyễn court in Vietnam. He led an embassy to France in 1863, and committed suicide when France completed the invasion of Southern Vietna ...
the chief editor. It was finished in 1859 and additionally annotated by the emperor himself. After several modifications in 1871, 1872, 1876, and 1878, the book was finally published in 1884.
''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' was translated into the
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese m ...
in 1960. It can now be found online in the
National Library of Vietnam.
Contents
''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' contains 53 volumes.
References
External links
digitized version
Vietnamese books
Nguyen dynasty texts
History books about Vietnam
19th-century history books
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