Zhōngguó gǔdài de zhèngshǐ dàduō shì duàndàishǐ, yí ge cháodài xiě yí bù.
Most of China's official histories are dynastic histories, one book for each dynasty.
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断代 is "to mark off a period". The opposite is 通史, a history running through all ages, like the 《史记》. 班固's 《汉书》 was the first 断代史, and most later official histories followed it.
