To Establish Peace

being the Chronicle of the Later Han dynasty
for the years 189 to 200 AD
as recorded in Chapters 59 to 63 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang

Internet edition 2004

VOLUME 1

Translated and annotated by Rafe de Crespigny

Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University

NOTE: This document contains the text of the first volume of a work which was originally published in 1996 as No. 21 of the Asian Studies Monographs: New Series of the Faculty of Asian Studies at The Australian National University. Internet publication January 2004.
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The complete text of To Establish Peace is published on the Internet as a set of fourteen Acrobat PDF documents and is made available in two volumes: To Establish Peace Volume 1 and To Establish Peace Volume 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS AND LINKS TO PDF DOCUMENTS

Parts from FOREWORD to TABLES [ pdf large file 161 kb]

FOREWORD to this Internet edition

PREFACE to the 1996 hard-copy edition

INTRODUCTION

Zizhi tongjianand the Fall of Han
The Arrangement of the Translation and the Notes
An Outline of the Military Organisation of Later Han
The Last Years of Later Han

LIST OF MAPS

TABLES

The Emperors of the Two Han dynasties

Chronology 189 to 200 AD

TRANSLATION AND NOTES

	[pages of the 1996 edition]
CHAPTER 59 [ pdf large file 373 kb] Zhongping 6: 189 Chuping 1: 190	1 36
CHAPTER 60 [ pdf large file 413 kb] Chuping 2: 191 Chuping 3: 192 Chuping 4: 193	62 88 113
CHAPTER 61 [ pdf large file 340 kb] Xingping 1: 194 Xingping 2: 195	127 148
CHAPTER 62 [ pdf large file 764 kb] Jian'an 1: 196 Jian'an 2: 197 Jian'an 3: 198	187 212 230
CHAPTER 63 [ pdf large file 280 kb] Jian'an 4: 199 Jian'an 5: 200	247 271
BIBLIOGRAPHY [ pdf file 78 kb] of works cited in the Notes Part I: Early Chinese texts Part II: Modern texts
FINDING LIST of texts identified as sources for Zizhi tongjian 59-69	included at the end of Volume 2