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Hou Han Shu Dongyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern Yi in the Book of the Later Han)後漢書 東夷列傳
A fifth-century man's ordering of how China looked at the east through the two hundred years of the Later Han. Buyeo, Eumnu, Goguryeo, Eastern Okjeo, Ye, the Three Han and Wa come in turn. Compiled some hundred and fifty years after the Accounts of the Eastern Yi in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, yet treating an earlier age, it lays bare side by side what each of the two books left out and what it added at the same places. Here are the tale of Dongmyeong striking the water with his bow and founding Buyeo, how Himiko came to be set up as ruler, and the Sodo that Mahan raised by hanging bells and drums on a great tree.
The whole of the Eastern Yi account in volume 85 has been translated (9 entries, 34 paragraphs). The graphs were matched against the source text entry by entry and confirmed to differ by not a single graph. The first entry is a prefatory piece with no title in the source text, so it is left as it has long been called, 序. In this source text simplified graphs have slipped in among the traditional ones, and there are four places where a graph is quite changed (召分 for 召公, 寇弁 for 冠弁, 几蠻 for 凡蠻, and 枯 in 矢用枯 for 楛); the original is left as the source text has it and the sense was construed only in the translation.
Complete in one volume
- The appraisal評語 · 2 passages · 229 Chinese characters
- Wa倭 · 6 passages · 729 Chinese characters
- The Three Han三韓 · 6 passages · 732 Chinese characters
- Ye濊 · 2 passages · 522 Chinese characters
- Eastern Okjeo東沃沮 · 3 passages · 394 Chinese characters
- Goguryeo高句麗 · 6 passages · 1,141 Chinese characters
- Eumnu挹婁 · 1 passages · 251 Chinese characters
- The kingdom of Buyeo夫餘國 · 3 passages · 622 Chinese characters
- Introduction序 · 5 passages · 672 Chinese characters