Huayang guo zhi

The Huáyáng guózhí 華陽國志 (English: Records of the Lands South of Mount Hua) is a local history in twelve scrolls (juàn 卷) written by the Jin scholar Chang Qu 常璩. The title is derived from the area that is the theme of Chang Qu's book: the region of Ba commandery, Shu commandery, the upper course of the River Han 漢中 and south into the modern province of Guizhou. This area is covered in the first four chapters. Chapters 5 to 10 then change from a more general style to an annalistic history of the region of modern Sichuan from the Later Han period, through the Shu-Han period of Liu Bei, the Western Jin and the short-lived Cheng-Han dynasty. Chapters 10 and 11 are biographies of worthies and outstanding women.