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The ''Suí shū'', or "Book 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> 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>

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, and was politically charged, as an ancient reference to Taiwan in the ''Book of Sui'' would help support notions that Taiwan (now, in the 1920s, an integral part of the Japanese Empire) was originally, fundamentally, part of Japan.<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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