The Book of Sui (Suí Shū) is the official history of the Sui dynasty, which ruled China in the years AD 581–618. It ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written by Yan Shigu, Kong Yingda, and Zhangsun Wuji, with Wei Zheng as the lead author. In the third year of Zhenguan of the Tang dynasty (629), Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered Fang Xuanling to supervise the completion of the Book of Sui, which was being compiled around the same time as other official histories were being written. The Book of Sui was completed in 636 AD, the same year as the Book of Chen was completed.
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Pages from the Book of Sui, from a printed edition dating to 1297-1307
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The format used in the text follows the composite historical biography format (斷代紀傳體) established by Ban Gu in the Book of the Later Han with three sections: annals (紀), treatises (志), and biographies (傳).[1] The extensive set of 30 treatises, sometimes translated as "monographs", in the Book of Sui was completed by a separate set of authors and added in 656 – 20 years after the original text was completed.[2] The treatises cover the Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou dynasties in addition to the Sui. In addition to the Book of Liang and Book of Chen, the Book of Sui is an essential source of information on the subjects covered for those dynasties. The treatises on classics (經籍) are especially important because the Book of Sui is the only standard history including such a section since the Book of Han and contains essential bibliographical information for the period from the Later Han (25–220) to the Sui dynasty. The treatises were initially circulated as a separate set titled "Treatises of the History of the Five Dynasties" (五代史志).[3]
| # | Title | Translation | Notes |
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| Volume 1 | 帝紀第1高祖上 | Gaozu | |
| Volume 2 | 帝紀第2高祖下 | Gaozu | |
| Volume 3 | 帝紀第3煬帝上 | Emperor Yang | |
| Volume 4 | 帝紀第4煬帝下 | Emperor Yang | |
| Volume 5 | 帝紀第5恭帝 | Yang You |
| # | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 6 | 志第1禮儀1 | Rites | |
| Volume 7 | 志第2禮儀2 | Rites | |
| Volume 8 | 志第3禮儀3 | Rites | |
| Volume 9 | 志第4禮儀4 | Rites | |
| Volume 10 | 志第5禮儀5 | Rites | |
| Volume 11 | 志第6禮儀6 | Rites | |
| Volume 12 | 志第7禮儀7 | Rites | |
| Volume 13 | 志第8音樂上 | Music | |
| Volume 14 | 志第9音樂中 | Music | |
| Volume 15 | 志第10音樂下 | Music | |
| Volume 16 | 志第11律曆上 | Rhythm and the Calendar | |
| Volume 17 | 志第12律曆中 | Rhythm and the Calendar | |
| Volume 18 | 志第13律曆下 | Rhythm and the Calendar | |
| Volume 19 | 志第14天文上 | Astronomy | |
| Volume 20 | 志第15天文中 | Astronomy | |
| Volume 21 | 志第16天文下 | Astronomy | |
| Volume 22 | 志第17五行上 | The Five Elements | |
| Volume 23 | 志第18五行下 | The Five Elements | |
| Volume 24 | 志第19食貨 | Food and Money | |
| Volume 25 | 志第20刑法 | Punishment and Law | |
| Volume 26 | 志第21百官上 | Government Offices | |
| Volume 27 | 志第22百官中 | Government Offices | |
| Volume 28 | 志第23百官下 | Government Offices | |
| Volume 29 | 志第24地理上 | Geography | |
| Volume 30 | 志第25地理中 | Geography | |
| Volume 31 | 志第26地理下 | Geography | |
| Volume 32 | 志第27經籍1 | Classics | |
| Volume 33 | 志第28經籍2 | Classics | |
| Volume 34 | 志第29經籍3 | Classics | |
| Volume 35 | 志第30經籍4 | Classics |
| # | Title | Translation | Notes |
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| Volume 36 | 列傳第1后妃 | Empresses | |
| Volume 37 | 列傳第2李穆 梁睿 | Li Mu; Liang Rui | |
| Volume 38 | 列傳第3劉昉 鄭譯 柳裘 皇甫績 盧賁 | Liu Fang; Zheng Yi; Liu Qiu; Huangfu Ji; Lu Ben | |
| Volume 39 | 列傳第4于義 陰壽 陰世師 竇榮定 元景山 源雄 豆盧勣 豆盧毓 賀若誼 | Yu Yi | |
| Volume 40 | 列傳第5梁士彥 宇文忻 王誼 元諧 王世積 虞慶則 元胄 | Liang Shiyan; Yuwen Xin; Wang Yi | |
| Volume 41 | 列傳第6高熲 蘇威 | Gao Jiong; Su Wei | |
| Volume 42 | 列傳第7李德林 李百藥 | Li Delin; Li Baiyao | |
| Volume 43 | 列傳第8河間王弘 楊処綱 楊子崇 觀德王雄 | ||
| Volume 44 | 列傳第9滕穆王瓚 道悼王靜 衛昭王爽 蔡王智積 | Yang Zan; Yang Jing; Yang Shuang | |
| Volume 45 | 列傳第10文四子 | Four Princes of Wen | |
| Volume 46 | 列傳第11趙煚 趙芬 楊尚希 長孫平 元暉 韋師 楊異 蘇孝慈 李雄 張煚 | ||
| Volume 47 | 列傳第12韋世康 柳機 | Wei Shikang | |
| Volume 48 | 列傳第13楊素 弟約 從父文思 文紀 | Yang Su | |
| Volume 49 | 列傳第14牛弘 | Niu Hong | |
| Volume 50 | 列傳第15宇文慶 李禮成 元孝矩 郭榮 龐晃 李安 | Yuwen Qing | |
| Volume 51 | 列傳第16長孫覽 從子熾 熾弟晟 | ||
| Volume 52 | 列傳第17韓擒虎 賀若弼 | Han Qinhu; Heruo Bi | |
| Volume 53 | 列傳第18達奚長儒 賀婁子幹 史萬歲 劉方 | Daxi Zhangru; Shi Wansui; Liu Fang | |
| Volume 54 | 列傳第19王長述 李衍 伊婁謙 田仁恭 元亨 杜整 李徹 崔彭 | ||
| Volume 55 | 列傳第20杜彥 高勱 爾朱敞 周搖 獨孤揩 乞伏慧 張威 和洪 侯莫陳穎 | ||
| Volume 56 | 列傳第21盧愷 令狐熙 薛胄 宇文㢸 張衡 楊汪 | ||
| Volume 57 | 列傳第22盧思道 李孝貞 薛道衡 | Lu Sidao; Li Xiaozhen | |
| Volume 58 | 列傳第23明克讓 魏澹 陸爽 杜台卿 辛德源 柳䛒 許善心 李文博 | ||
| Volume 59 | 列傳第24煬帝三男 | Three Princes of Yang | |
| Volume 60 | 列傳第25崔仲方 于仲文 段文振 | Cui Zhongfang; Yu Zhongwen | |
| Volume 61 | 列傳第26宇文述 雲定興 郭衍 | Yuwen Shu | |
| Volume 62 | 列傳第27王韶 元岩 劉行本 梁毗 柳彧 趙綽 裴肅 | ||
| Volume 63 | 列傳第28樊子蓋 史祥 元壽 楊義臣 衛玄 劉權 | Fan Zigai | |
| Volume 64 | 列傳第29李圓通 陳茂 張定和 張奫 麥鐵杖 沈光 來護兒 魚俱羅 陳稜 王辯 | Lai Hu'er | |
| Volume 65 | 列傳第30周羅睺 周法尚 李景 慕容三藏 薛世雄 王仁恭 權武 吐萬緒 董純 趙才 | ||
| Volume 66 | 列傳第31李諤 鮑宏 裴政 柳庄 源師 郎茂 高構 張虔威 榮毗 陸知命 房彥謙 | ||
| Volume 67 | 列傳第32虞世基 裴蘊 裴矩 | Yu Shiji; Pei Yun; Pei Ju | |
| Volume 68 | 列傳第33宇文愷 閻毗 何稠 | Yuwen Kai | |
| Volume 69 | 列傳第34王劭 袁充 | Wang Shao; Yuan Chong | |
| Volume 70 | 列傳第35楊玄感 李子雄 趙元淑 斛斯政 劉元進 李密 裴仁基 | Yang Xuangan; Li Zixiong; Li Mi; Pei Renji | |
| Volume 71 | 列傳第36誠節 | Sincere Men | |
| Volume 72 | 列傳第37孝義 | Filial Piety | |
| Volume 73 | 列傳第38循吏 | Upright Officials | |
| Volume 74 | 列傳第39酷吏 | Cruel Officials | |
| Volume 75 | 列傳第40儒林 | Confucian Scholars | |
| Volume 76 | 列傳第41文學 | Literature | |
| Volume 77 | 列傳第42隱逸 | Hermits | |
| Volume 78 | 列傳第43藝術 | Artists | |
| Volume 79 | 列傳第44外戚 | Imperial Affines | |
| Volume 80 | 列傳第45列女 | Exemplary Women | |
| Volume 81 | 列傳第46東夷 | The Dongyi | |
| Volume 82 | 列傳第47南蠻 | The Nanman | |
| Volume 83 | 列傳第48西域 | The Western Regions | |
| Volume 84 | 列傳第49北狄 | The Beidi | |
| Volume 85 | 列傳第50宇文化及 宇文智及 司馬德戡 裴虔通 王充 段達 | Yuwen Huaji; Yuwen Zhiji; Wang Shichong |
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