东都事略

《东都事略》是记载北宋历史的纪传体书籍，为南宋宋孝宗时王称所著。由于北宋建都汴梁（即今开封，又称东京），所以被命名为《东都事略》。

全书共分一百三十卷。由宋太祖赵匡胤开始，内容含盖直到宋钦宗赵桓为止：

帝纪十二卷：记载各代帝王的大事

世家五卷：记叙后妃和宗室

列传一百零五卷：记载六百九十七人事迹

附录八卷：列举辽、金、夏、西蕃、交阯的情况

王称根据当时的国史、实录、野史写成《东都事略》，昌彼得称：“宋光宗时眉山程舍人宅刊本，一百三十卷全。按王称承其家学，绍其父赏之遗志，旁搜北宋九朝之文献事迹，撰成此书，叙事约而该，议论亦颇持平，盖其撰述之时，去汴京之陷未远，史料齐全，故老尚在，记载多可征信，李焘撰《续通鉴长编》，于此书多所采辑，故为治北宋史实之重要典籍。”全文叙事简明扼要，有些内容为《宋史》所无，可补《宋史》不足。

Dongdu Shilüe ("Summary of Events in the Eastern Capital") is an 1186 Chinese book chronicling the Northern Song dynasty (960–1126) history, written by Wang Cheng, a Southern Song official in the historiographic compilation bureau. It was so titled because Song's "Eastern Capital" Kaifeng had fallen to the Jin dynasty since the Jingkang incident in 1127.

Much of the information appears to be compiled by Wang Cheng's father Wang Shang (王賞), who worked in the editorial office for the Veritable Records during 1142–43.

Contents

The book contains 130 chapters (卷):

Chapters 1–12: annals of emperors (帝紀), one chapter each for every Northern Song emperor (from Emperor Taizu of Song to Emperor Qinzong)

Chapters 13–17: biographies of imperial relatives (世家)

Chapters 18–122: biographies (列傳), including the empresses

Chapters 123–130: supplementary monographs (附錄) about foreign countries: 2 chapters each for Liao dynasty, Jin dynasty, and Western Xia, and 1 chapter each for Tibet (Gusiluo regime) and Đại Việt (Ngô dynasty, Đinh dynasty, Early Lê dynasty, and Lý dynasty)