VIII.C. Incumbents in Certain Offices

The political chronologies for Northern and Southern Sung cited above record appointments to high central and provincial offices. Here lists of incumbents in particular offices are noted.

Central Government

For a systematic and comprehensive chronological list of incumbents in the major court and capital offices, see:

This list covers councilors and vice-councilors, the Bureau of Military Affairs, the State Finance Commission, the Hanlin Academy, the Eastern Palace, the Herds Office, the Remonstrance Bureau, the Secretariat, the Chancellery, the Department of State Affairs (with the Six Boards), the Censorate, the Imperial Library, the Palace Administration, and the various Courts and Directorates (si jian) (such as the Directorate of Education).
The Appendix includes a name index organized by pinyin transliteration with finding aids by the four-corner system and by stroke number. There is also a table of variant names of all positions listed.

For membership on the Council of State for the entire Sung dynasty, including documents of appointment and some biographical and anecdotal information, see the punctuated, critical edition of Hsu Tzu-ming's 徐自明 Sung tsai-fu pien-nien lu宋宰輔編年錄 and Lü Pang-yao's 呂邦耀 Hsu Sung tsai-fu pien-nien lu 續宋宰輔編年錄 It includes a name index.

The Sung History includes a table of appointments to the Council of State.

For extensive corrections to previous lists, see

This title replaces the same author's Song shi zaifu biao 宋史宰輔表.

Regional and Local Government

Route level officers are listed in:

This is a chronological overview of incumbents in senior positions in route level offices. The chronological list of incumbents is organized by office and then by route name. It covers the Song period only, not Jin or Yuan.

Prefects are listed chronologically by prefecture in the series:

The editor, Li Zhiliang, compiled the chronologies for each Song prefecture on the basis of local gazetteers, The Song Dynastic History, Song Collected Statutes, private histories, administrative encyclopedias, collections of individual writers, and inscriptions. The chronologies are covered in nine volumes, based on the route to which the prefecture belonged. Prefectures lost to the Jin Empire are only covered up to the year of their annexation by Jin forces.

It includes the following titles:

This series includes a name index:

Military Offices

For incumbents in military intendancies (the Northern Sung ching-lueh an-fu shih 經略安撫使 and Southern Sung chih-chih shih 置制使 or chih-fu shih) chronologically by place, see:

This work is commonly available in the Erh-shih-wu shih

reprints). Only the edition listed above includes a name index.

For the Five Dynasties period, see:

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