貞觀政要
Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Era
Wu Jing 吳兢 · 670 – 749
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Wu Jing gathered the conversations of Emperor Taizong of Tang with ministers such as Wei Zheng into ten chapters and forty topics: choosing officials, accepting criticism, frugality, law. It is a handbook for rulers more than a narrative history, and it tidies its hero. Still, the exchanges are frank and specific, and the book was read by later rulers in China and well beyond it.