The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography

#253 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography

2005 • 425 pages

What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text's formation.

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#253 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 54-book series with 56 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and Alexander Barton Woodside.