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A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 205 - Hardcover

Schaberg, David

 
9780674008618: A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 205
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674008618 ISBN 13: 9780674008618
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather than being totally accurate accounts, they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day.

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About the Author

David Schaberg is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674008618
ISBN 13 
9780674008618
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
528