A Patterned Past - Form & Thought in Early Chinese Historiography

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-674-00861-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 205, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 871 g

Reihe: Harvard East Asian Monographs

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaberg, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

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