Lichao jishi benmo 歷朝紀事本末

The Tongjian jishi benmo 通鑑紀事本末 "Historical events of the Comprehensive Mirror in their entirey" is a rearrangement of the chronicle Zizhi tongjian 資政通鑒 of the Northern Song period 北宋 (960-1126) historian and politician Sima Guang 司馬光.
The Tongjian jishi benmo was written by the Southern Song period 南宋 (1127-1279) scholar Yuan Shu 袁樞 (1131-1205). In this type of history particular historic events are arranged around certain central themes that make it much easier to understand the origins of certain development and their results, than a simple chronological arrangement of the events as used in the Zizhi tongjian or the arrangement of history in the shape of biographies (jizhuanti 紀傳體) like in the official dynastic histories. The 142 juan "scrolls" long book comprises 1,362 separate historic events in their entirety, beginning with the dissolution of the ancient state of Jin 晉 by the marquesses of Han 韓, Wei 魏 and Zhao 趙 in 403 BCE and ends with the foundation of the Song dynasty in 960. These events are arranged in 239 chapters, with 66 additional chapters appended to some of the main chapters, making out a total of 305 chapters. During the compilation process, Yuan Shu made use of the cut-and-paste method and rearranged paragraphs of the Zizhi tongjian, but in such a refined way that the reader is not aware that the text was actually not compiled as a coherent narrative but in a potpourri method. The content concentrates on event history and neglects a lot of other interesting aspects, like politics, administration and economy.
The Tongjian jishi benmo was first printed in 1176. There is a commentary written for each chapter compiled by the late Ming period 明 (1368-1644) historian Zhang Pu 張溥. The most common version of the

Lichao jishi benmo 歷朝紀事本末 (Qing) 陳如升 Chen Rusheng, 朱記榮 Zhu Jirong (comp.)
書名, length in juan	Title	Author(s)
左傳紀事本末 五十三卷	Zuozhuan jishi benmo	(Qing) 高士奇 Gao Shiqi
通鑑紀事本末 二百三十九卷	Tongjian jishi benmo	(Song) 袁樞 Yuan Shu, (Ming) 張溥 Zhang Pu (comm.)
通鑑長編紀事本末一百五十卷	Tongjian changbian jishi benmo	(Song) 楊仲良 Yang Zhongliang
宋史紀事本末 一百零九卷	Songshi jishi benmo	(Ming) 馮琦 Feng Qi, (Ming) 陳邦瞻 Chen Bangzhan (rev.), (Ming) 張溥 Zhang Pu (comm.)
遼史紀事本末 四十卷	Liaoshi jishi benmo	(Qing) 李有棠 Li Youtang
金史紀事本末 五十二卷	Jinshi jishi benmo	(Qing) 李有棠 Li Youtang
西夏紀事本末 三十六卷	Xixia jishi benmo	(Qing) 張鑑 Zhang Jian
元史紀事本末 二十七卷	Yuanshi jishi benmo	(Ming) 陳邦瞻 Chen Bangzhan (Ming) 張溥 Zhang Pu (comm.)
明史紀事本末 八十卷	Mingshi jishi benmo	(Qing) 谷應泰 Gu Yingtai
三藩紀事本末 二十二卷	Sanfan jishi benmo	(Qing) 陳陸榮 Chen Lurong
Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館 (ed. 1982), Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄, vol 1, p. 639. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe.