Jonathan W. Best, A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, together with an annotated translation of The Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, March, 2007.
Jonathan W. Best：《高丽早期百济国史，附〈三国史记•百济本纪〉译注》，坎布里奇：哈佛大学出版社，2007年3月。
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Jonathan W. Best is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.
This volume presents two histories of the early Korean kingdom of Paekche (trad. 18 BCE-660 CE). The first, written by Jonathan Best, is based largely on primary sources, both written and archaeological. This initial history of Paekche serves, in part, to introduce the second, an extensively annotated translation of the oldest history of the kingdom, the Paekche Annals (Paekche pon'gi). Written in the chronicle format standard for the traditional official histories of East Asia, the Paekche Annals constitutes one section of the Histories of the Three Kingdoms (Samguk sagi), a comprehensive account of early Korean history compiled under the editorial direction of Kim Pusik (1075-1151). Although these two representations of Paekche history differ markedly, the underlying problem faced by both the twelfth-century and the twenty-first-century historian is essentially the same: fashioning a responsible, encompassing, and reasonably coherent history of the kingdom from meager, and often disparate and fragmentary, evidence.
Included in the volume are 22 appendixes on problems in Paekche history; a concordance of proper names, official titles, omens, and weights and measures; a glossary of geographical names; and six historical maps of the kingdom showing its changing boundaries.
该书提供了两种高丽早期百济国(公元前18世纪—公元660年)的历史。第一种由Jonathan Best基于原典材料而撰著，其史料范围涵盖文献与考古材料。这段内容的部分用意是协助阐释第二部分将进一步展开译注的《三国史记•百济本纪》，这是百济国最早期的历史。《三国史记》是一部全面的高丽早期历史，由金富轼(1075—1151)总编纂，采用纪传这一东亚官修史书传统体例，《百济本纪》就是其中的一个组成部分。尽管金富轼与Jonathan Best的两种百济历史在表达方式上迥然有异，但两种历史并列表明12世纪与21世纪的史家仍面对着一个共同的问题：如何从匮乏，并且经常零碎、矛盾的材料中加工整理出可资采信、周详完备且合理连贯的百济早期历史。
书中同时收有关于百济历史问题的22种附录；姓名、职官、卜辞和度量衡的解释索引；地名表以及6幅展示百济国疆界盈缩的历史地图。
PS：《三国史记》是标准的纪传体史书，但英文中用chronicle(编年体)，不妥。proper names和omens也不知道具体对应什么，凭想象翻译了一下。