Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

Online publications about Early Imperial China by Adjunct Professor Rafe de Crespigny.

Dr Rafe de Crespigny's Curriculum Vitae.

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Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling 

The complete text of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in Chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 12, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1989 [ISBN 0 7315 0655 3]. Internet publication October 2003.[This version includes maps but not characters]

To Establish Peace volume 1 

The complete text of To Establish Peace: being the Chronicle of the Later Han dynasty for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang [volume 1: Chapters 59-63, 189-200], translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 21, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1996 ISBN 0 7315 2526 4 [ISBN of the set 0 7315 2537 X]. Internet publication January 2004. [This version includes maps but not characters]

To Establish Peace volume 2 

The complete text of To Establish Peace: being the Chronicle of the Later Han dynasty for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang [volume 2: Chapters 64-69, 201-220], translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 21, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1996 ISBN 0 7315 2536 1 [ISBN of the set 0 7315 2537 X]. Internet publication January 2004. [This version includes maps but not characters]

Later Han Civil Administration 

Based on the Introduction to Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in Chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 12, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1989 [ISBN 0 7315 0655 3]. This version includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles,following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill,Leiden, 2007.

Inspection and Surveillance Officials under the Two Han Dynasties 

Second edition [Internet] 2007. This is a revised version of an article first published in State and Law in East Asia [Festschrift Karl Bünger], edited by Dieter Eikemeier and Herbert Franke, Wiesbaden 1981, pp. 40-79. It includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles, following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill, Leiden, 2007.

Political Protest in Imperial China: the Great Proscription of Later Han 167-184 

Second edition [Internet] 2007. This is a revised version of an article first published in Papers on Far Eastern History, The Australian National University, Canberra, no. 11 [March 1975], pp. 1-36. It includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles, following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill, Leiden, 2007.

The Harem of Emperor Huan: a study of court politics in Later Han 

Second edition [Internet] 2007. This is a revised version of an article first published in Papers on Far Eastern History, The Australian National University, Canberra, no. 12 [September 1975], pp. 1-42. It includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles, following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill,Leiden, 2007.

Later Han Military Organisation 

Extract from the Introduction to To Establish Peace: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang, translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 21, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1996 [ISBN 0 7315 2537 X]. This version includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles,following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill,Leiden, 2007.

The Northern Frontier of Later Han 

The Government and Geography of the Northern Frontier of Later Han, being Chapter 1 of Northern Frontier: the policies and strategy of the Later Han Empire by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 4, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1984 ISBN 0 86784 410 8. Internet publication April 2004. [This version includes a general map and some summary annotations but no characters or detailed notes.]

Later Han and the Xiongnu 

The Division and Destruction of the Xiongnu Confederacy in the first and second centuries AD, [Turkish: "Hun Konfederasyonu'nun Blnmesi ve Yikilmasi"], being a paper published in The Turks [Yeni TrkiyeMedya Hismetleri-Murat Ocak], Ankara 2002, pp. 256-243 & 749-757. Internet publication April 2004. [This version includes a map and notes but no characters]

Generals of the South 

The complete text of Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu by Rafe de Crespigny. Asian Studies Monographs, New Series No. 16, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra 1990 ISBN 0 7315 0901 3: Internet publication March 2004. [This version includes maps but not characters.] Chapter One of Generals of the South comprises a survey of south China during the Later Han period.

South China during Han 

"South China in the Han period," being a paper published in Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Age Cultures: the proceedings of a conference held at the Edith and Joy London Foundation property, Kioloa, NSW, 8-12 February 1988, edited by F David Bulbeck,with others edited and translated by Noel Barnard, Taipei 1996-97, II,pp. 759-768: Internet publication May 2004. [This version includes a map and notes but no characters.]

Man from the Margin: Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms 

The Fifty-first George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology, 1990.

A Question of Loyalty: Xun Yu, Cao Cao and Sima Guang 

Second edition [Internet] 2007. This is a revised version of an article first published in Sino-Asiatica: papers dedicated to Professor Liu Ts'un-yan on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, edited by Wang Gung-wu, Rafe de Crespigny and Igor de Rachewiltz, Canberra 2002, pp. 30-59. It includes characters, and slightly modified renderings for a number of titles, following Dr de Crespigny's recent publication A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), E J Brill, Leiden, 2007.

Poems and Rhapsodies 

Some Poems and Rhapsodies of the Later Han and Three Kingdoms,translated by Rafe de Crespigny.

The Three Kingdoms and Western Jin: a history of China in the Third Century AD 

An article published in East Asian History [ISSN 1036-6008],The Australian National University, Canberra no. 1 [June 1991], pp. 1-36, & no. 2 [December 1991], pp. 143-164. Internet publication last revised November 2003.