The ''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' ( vi-hantu, 欽定越史通鑑綱目, lit. "The Imperially Ordered Annotated Text Completely Reflecting the History of Viet") is the history of Vietnam commissioned by the Emperor

Tự Đức Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, :wikt:嗣, 嗣:wikt:德, 德, , 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm, also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, and the country's la ...

of the

Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...

.Keith Weller Taylor The Birth of Vietnam 1991 - Page 359 "The Kham dinh Viet su thong giam cuong muc (Imperially Ordered Annotated Text Completely Reflecting the History of Viet) was initially assembled in 1856-59 and thereafter revised and annotated in 1871, 1872, 1876, and 1878 (Cadiere and ..." It was written in Văn ngôn (which is a form of

Classical Chinese Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from . For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary ...

used in Vietnam). Emperor

's interest in history led him to order the creation of this book in 1856. He appointed Phan Thanh Giản the chief editor. It was finished in 1859 and additionally annotated by the Emperor himself. After several modifications in 1871, 1872, 1876, and 1878, the book was finally published in 1884. ''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' was translated into the

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in 1960. It can now be found online in the National Library of Vietnam.

''Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục'' contains 53 volumes.

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