During the Qing period, twenty-four books were again selected as official histories and began to be referred to simply as 'the twenty-four histories', so in general the term "official histories of China" is taken to be referring to these twenty-four books.
清のとき、二十四書が正史として再度選ばれ、「二十四史」と呼ばれるようになったので、中国の正史といえば普通二十四史を指す。