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A patterned past : form and thought in early Chinese historiography / David Schaberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaberg, David, 1964-
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 205.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 205
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confucius. Chun qiu.
- Confucius.
- Zuoqiu, Ming. Guo yu.
- Zuoqiu, Ming.
- Zuoqiu, Ming. Zuo zhuan.
- Historiography--China.
- Historiography.
- China--History--Spring and Autumn period, 722-481 B.C--Historiography.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 503 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.
- Other Title:
- Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Rhetoric of Good Order
- Wen and the Meaning of Verbal Art
- Intelligibility in the Extra-human World
- Order in the Human World
- The Anecdotal History
- Narrative and Recompense
- Aesthetics and Meaning
- Writing and the Ends of History
- Orality and the Origins of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chinese Character List
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-470) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781684173617
- 1684173612
- OCLC:
- 604764163
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684173617 DOI
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