Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe By Their Lineal Descendant

This book is the first basic tool in English to trace the origins of Chinese surnames. At the heart of the work are three principal chapters. Chapter 1 describes the history of Chinese surnames, the research on Chinese surnames in literature, and reasons surnames have changed in Chinese history. Chapter 2, by far the largest of the chapters, delivers a genealogical analysis of more than 600 Chinese surnames. Chapter 3 consists of an annotated bibliography of Chinese and English language sources on Chinese surnames. The work concludes with separate indexes to family names, authors, titles, and Chinese-character stroke numbers (one mechanism used for grouping Chinese characters).Rixford, Elizabeth M. Leach is the author of 'Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe By Their Lineal Descendant', published 1999 under ISBN 9780806349459 and ISBN 080634945X.