Biography

Yuan Shu was a Chinese historian and official of the Southern Song dynasty. He is best known as the author of the Tongjian jishi benmo, a restructured version of the Zizhi tongjian (資治通鑑) that focuses on the sequential development of historical events. His work is contained in the collection Sibu congkan 四部丛刊 with reproduction of a large-character edition (daziben) from the Song dynasty.