NAHF published 『Chinese Authentic Historic Record 'The Dongyijeon' - Translation and Comment 1~4』 which deals with 『Shiji』 and 『Xin wudai shi』. This book is one of NAHF's projects to organize basic data on Korean ancient history and build a foundation research. It is a follow-up to the series 『Chinese Authentic Historic Record 'The Waiguo chuan' - Translation and Comment』 which was completed in 2015.

『Chinese Authentic Historic Record 'The Dongyijeon'』 is highly valuable as a historical material in the study of Korean ancient history, which is absolutely lacking in data. The reason is that this book was written at a time close to the same time compared to 『Samguksagi』 and 『Samgukyusa』, especially because it tells various aspects of Korean ancient society from the perspective of outsiders. NAHF has strengthened the expertise of the book by organizing researchers in each major field(Gojoseon and Buyeo, Goguryeo and Balhae, Baekje and Silla). In order to secure the correct original text, we compared the various editions published after Song Dynasty and corrected the difference.

Each volume consisted of volume 1 『Shiji』, 『Hanshu』, 『Hou hanshu』, 『Three Kingdoms』, volume 2 『Jin Shu』~『Xin wudai shi』 Goguryeo·Balhae, volume 3 『Jin Shu』~『Xin tang shu』 Baekje, volume 4 『Jin Shu』~『Xin wudai shi』 Silla.