Zhou History Unearthed The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian And Early Chinese Historiography

Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231196628

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Zhou History Unearthed - the Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography by Yuri Pines Pdf

Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines details the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China.

Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231196636

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Zhou History Unearthed - the Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography by Yuri Pines Pdf

Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines details the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China.

Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231551755

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Zhou History Unearthed by Yuri Pines Pdf

There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the centuries preceding the imperial unification of 221 BCE. However, recently discovered bamboo manuscripts from the Warring States period (453–221 BCE) have changed this picture, leading to reappraisals of early Chinese historiography. These manuscripts shed new light on questions related to the production, circulation, and audience of historical texts in early China; their different political, ritual, and ideological usages; and their roles in the cultural and intellectual dynamics of China’s vibrant pre-imperial age. Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines elucidates the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China (1046–255 BCE), as well as major historical events and topics such as Chu’s cultural identity. Pines explores how Xinian challenges existing interpretations of the nature and reliability of canonical historical texts on the Zhou era, such as Zuo zhuan (Zuo Tradition/Commentary) and Records of the Historian (Shiji). A major work of scholarship and translation, Zhou History Unearthed sheds new light on early Chinese history and historiography, demonstrating how new archaeological findings are changing our knowledge of China’s pre-imperial days.

Author : Yuri Pines,Martin Kern,Nino Luraghi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004685369

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Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography by Yuri Pines,Martin Kern,Nino Luraghi Pdf

Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability. In the present volume—the first of its kind in any Western language—leading scholars of ancient China, Greece, and Rome approach Zuozhuan from multi-faceted perspectives to examine in detail Zuozhuan’s sources, narrative patterns, and meta-narrative devices; analyze the text in dialogue with other ancient Chinese works; and open it to the comparative study with ancient Greek and Roman historiography. Contributors are: Chen Minzhen, Stephen Durrant, Joachim Gentz, Martin Kern, Wai-yee Li, Nino Luraghi, Ellen O’Gorman, Yuri Pines, David Schaberg, and Kai Vogelsang.

Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895521

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Early China by Li Feng Pdf

A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.

Author : Rens Krijgsman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004540842

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Early Chinese Manuscript Collections by Rens Krijgsman Pdf

As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.

Author : Feng Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884471

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Bureaucracy and the State in Early China by Feng Li Pdf

This ook redefines the bureaucracy of Ancient Chinese society during the Western Zhou period. The analysis is based on inscriptions of royal edicts from the period carved into bronze vessels. The inscriptions clarify the political and social construction of the Western Zhou and the ways in which it exercised its authority.

Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438495231

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Writing Early China by Edward L. Shaughnessy Pdf

Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these types of documents and considers what they reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Opposed to the common view that most knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient China, Shaughnessy demonstrates that by no later than the tenth century BCE scribes were writing lengthy texts like portions of the Chinese classics, and that by the fourth century BCE the primary mode of textual transmission was by way of visual copying from one manuscript to another.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : 聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EAN:9772310929005

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 9780199328369

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The Oxford Handbook of Early China by Elizabeth Childs-Johnson Pdf

A chronological and interdisciplinary study of early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).

Author : Christopher J. Foster,Glenda Chao,Mercedes Valmisa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009475723

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The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia by Christopher J. Foster,Glenda Chao,Mercedes Valmisa Pdf

A comprehensive discussion of the methodological and ethical issues inherent to researching unprovenienced artifacts.

Author : Edward L Shaughnessy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350170384

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A Brief History of Ancient China by Edward L Shaughnessy Pdf

A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE). Organised into five major sections, it examines the political shifts of the major dynasties, the histories of local states, and the lives of key individuals. Drawing on analysis of textual and visual materials, and a variety of English and non-English sources, Edward L. Shaughnessy offers detailed insight into the contemporary religious and philosophical landscape, governmental and legal practices, and innovations in writing, literature, and music. Incorporating recent developments in the field, this book draws on archaeological discoveries from the last century, and examines the lives of central female figures, and other groups who are often underrepresented.

Author : Steven F. Sage
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438418469

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Ancient Sichuan and the Unification of China by Steven F. Sage Pdf

Recent archaeological finds in China have made possible a reconstruction of the ancient history of Sichuan, the country's most populous province. Excavated artifacts and new recovered texts now supplement traditional textual materials. Together, these data show how Sichuan matured from peripheral obscurity to attain central importance in the Chinese empire during the first millennium B.C.

Author : Elisa Levi Sabattini,Christian Schwermann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004466432

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Between Command and Market by Elisa Levi Sabattini,Christian Schwermann Pdf

A deeply researched and thought-provoking set of essays on a sorely-neglected topic in Chinese economic, intellectual, and political history.

Author : Lei Yang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438497228

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Narrative Devices in the Shiji by Lei Yang Pdf

Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Records of the Historian), a vast collection of historical accounts completed by Sima Qian (145–86 BCE). For centuries, the dominant approach to the Shiji has been to infer Sima's intentions from his biographical experiences and subsequently project them back into the text. This has caused the import of the work to be overshadowed by Sima's tragedy of castration, and has minimized the question of how narrative as a form affects the text's interpretation. Lei Yang fills the gap by exploring how Sima manipulated the Shiji's narrative structure to represent the past. Drawing on Gérard Genette's narratological theories, the book examines how sequences of events build causality, what is slowed down and sped up to manage information control, and how the text provides multiple perspectives on the same events. Redefining the Shiji's place as a turning point in Chinese textual history, Narrative Devices in the Shiji sheds light on the evolution of early Chinese historiography. As an interdisciplinary dialogue between Chinese texts and the Western theories, it opens the Shiji to new interpretations and provides a novel framework for Chinese historical writings.