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*''Compiled: c. [[636]]-[[656]]''

*''Compiled: c. [[636]]-[[656]]''

*''Chinese'': 隋史 ''(Suí shǐ)''

*''Chinese'': 隋書 ''(Suí shū)''

The ''Suí shǐ'', or "History of Sui," is an official dynastic history of China's [[Sui Dynasty]] ([[581]]-[[618]]).

The ''Suí shū'', or "Book of Sui," is an official dynastic history of China's [[Sui Dynasty]] ([[581]]-[[618]]).

The text contains the earliest usages of the word "Liuqiu" (J: ''[[Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]'').<ref>Kreiner, Josef. "Ryukyuan History in Comparative Perspective." in Kreiner (ed.) ''Ryukyu in World History''. Bonn: Biersche Verlagsanstalt, 2001. p3.</ref>

The text contains the earliest usages of the word "Liuqiu" (J: ''[[Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]'').<ref>Kreiner, Josef. "Ryukyuan History in Comparative Perspective." in Kreiner (ed.) ''Ryukyu in World History''. Bonn: Biersche Verlagsanstalt, 2001. p3.</ref> Though this was taken, within Japan at least, to refer unquestionably to the [[Ryukyu Islands]], all the way up through the 1860s, an [[1874]] work by the [[Marquis D'Hervey de Saint-Denys]] questioned this identification, and sparked a debate as to whether this and other ancient Chinese references to "Liúqiú" in fact referred to [[Taiwan]]. The debate heated up only beginning in the 1920s, <ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 8-9.</ref>

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