A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography - Couverture rigide

Schaberg, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674008618 ISBN 13 : 9780674008618

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 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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À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674008618
• ISBN 13: 9780674008618
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 528
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