Chinese History: A New Manual

Chinese History: A New Manual

Cover of Chinese History: A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth (Fiftieth Anniversary) Edition, Volume 1 (2022)
Author	Endymion Wilkinson
Original title	The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide
Language	English
Published	2022 Previous editions 1973 1998 2000 2012 2015 2017
Publisher	Harvard University Asia Center
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-0-674-26018-4

Chinese History: A New Manual (Chinese: 中國歷史新手册; pinyin: Zhōngguó lìshǐ xīn shǒucè), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an encyclopedic and bibliographic guide to Sinology and Chinese history. The New Manual lists and describes published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from pre-history to the twenty-first century, as well as selected up-to-date scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. Since its first appearance in a preliminary 1973 version, Wilkinson's manual has been continuously in print; it was most recently published in a 6th, 50-year Anniversary edition for 2022.

The New Manual includes detailed annotations evaluate reference and research tools and outline the 25 ancillary disciplines required for the study of Chinese history. Introductions to each of the chapters and interspersed short essays give encyclopedic and often witty summaries of major topics for specialists and general readers, as well as directives on the uses of history and avoidance of error in thought and analysis. It received the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014 in recognition of outstanding scholarship on Asian culture.