Zuozhuan And Early Chinese Historiography

Author : Yuri Pines,Martin Kern,Nino Luraghi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 2243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : China
ISBN : 9780295999159

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Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan by Anonim Pdf

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China�s first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

Author : Wai-yee Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174195

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The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography by Wai-yee Li Pdf

"The past becomes readable when we can tell stories and make arguments about it. When we can tell more than one story or make divergent arguments, the readability of the past then becomes an issue. Therein lies the beginning of history, the sense of inquiry that heightens our awareness of interpretation. How do interpretive structures develop and disintegrate? 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 (ca. 4th c. B.C.E.). But in what sense is this vast collection of narratives and speeches covering the period from 722 to 468 B.C.E. “historical”? If one can speak of an emergent sense of history in this text, Wai-yee Li argues, it lies precisely at the intersection of varying conceptions of interpretation and rhetoric brought to bear on the past, within a larger context of competing solutions to the instability and disintegration represented through the events of the 255 years covered by the Zuozhuan. Even as its accounts of proliferating disorder and disintegration challenge the boundaries of readability, the deliberations on the rules of reading in the Zuozhuan probe the dimensions of historical self-consciousness."

Author : David Schaberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684173617

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A Patterned Past by David Schaberg Pdf

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.

Author : Ming Zuoqiu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0231067151

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The Tso Chuan by Ming Zuoqiu Pdf

A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295747767

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The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader by Anonim Pdf

Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in Chinese culture, has been newly translated into English by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg in an unabridged, bilingual, three-volume set. This reader arranges key passages from that set according to topic, as a guide to the study of early Chinese culture and thought. Chapter subjects include succession struggles; women; warfare; ritual propriety; governance; law and punishment; famous statesmen; diplomacy; Confucius and his disciples; dreams and anomalies; and cultural others. An introduction explains the nature and significance of Zuozhuan and discusses how to read the text. Section introductions and judicious footnoting provide contextual information and explain the historical significance and meaning of particular events. The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader will appeal to readers interested in Chinese and world history, claiming a place on library and personal bookshelves alongside other narratives from the ancient world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 0295747757

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The Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan Reader by Anonim Pdf

"A selection of key passages from Durrant, Li, and Schaberg's three-volume translation of the Zuozhan"--

Author : Garret P. S. Olberding
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438443911

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Dubious Facts by Garret P. S. Olberding Pdf

What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and their description of events. Although these historians had notions of evidence, it is not clear to what extent they valued what contemporary scholars would deem "hard" facts. Offering an innovative approach to premodern historical documents, Garret P. S. Olberding argues that the speeches of court advisors reveal subtle strategies of information management in the early monarchic context. Olberding focuses on those addresses concerning military campaigns where evidence would be important in guiding immediate social and political policy. His analysis reveals the sophisticated conventions that governed the imperial advisor's logic and suasion in critical state discussions, which were specifically intended to counter anticipated doubts. Dubious Facts illuminates both the decision-making processes that informed early Chinese military campaigns and the historical records that represent them.

Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Stephen W. Durrant,Wai-yee Li,David Schaberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0295999160

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Zuo Tradition by Stephen W. Durrant,Wai-yee Li,David Schaberg Pdf

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China's first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation of Volume Two, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

Author : Paul R. Goldin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317681915

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Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History by Paul R. Goldin Pdf

The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by victors and present a correspondingly anachronistic perspective. This handbook provides an authoritative survey of the major periods of Chinese history from the Neolithic era to the fall of the Latter Han Empire and the end of antiquity (AD 220). It is the first volume to include not only a comprehensive review of political history but also detailed treatments of topics that transcend particular historical periods, such as: Warfare and political thought Cities and agriculture Language and art Medicine and mathematics Providing a detailed analysis of the most up-to-date research by leading scholars in the field of early Chinese history, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese history, Asian archaeology, and Chinese studies in general.

Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036046053

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New Sources of Early Chinese History by Edward L. Shaughnessy Pdf

Author : On Cho Ng,Q. Edward Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824829131

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Mirroring the Past by On Cho Ng,Q. Edward Wang Pdf

China is known for its deep veneration of history. Far more than a record of the past, history to the Chinese is the magister vitae (teacher of life): the storehouse of moral lessons and bureaucratic precedents. Mirroring the Past presents a comprehensive history of traditional Chinese historiography from antiquity to the mid-qing period. Organized chronologically, the book traces the development of historical thinking and writing in Imperial China, beginning with the earliest forms of historical consciousness and ending with adumbrations of the fundamentally different views engendered by mid-nineteenth-century encounters with the West. The historiography of each era is explored on two levels: first, the gathering of material and the writing and production of narratives to describe past events; second, the thinking and reflecting on meanings and patterns of the past. Significantly, the book embeds within this chronological structure integrated views of Chinese historiography, bringing to light the purposive, didactic, and normative uses of the past. authors lay bare the ingenious ways in which Chinese scholars extracted truth from events and reveal how schemas and philosophies of history were constructed and espoused. They highlight the dynamic nature of Chinese historiography, revealing that historical works mapped the contours of Chinese civilization not for the sake of understanding history as disembodied and theoretical learning, but for the pragmatic purpose of guiding the world by mirroring the past in all its splendor and squalor.

Author : Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer,Achim Mittag,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406914

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Historical Truth, Historical Criticism, and Ideology by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer,Achim Mittag,Jörn Rüsen Pdf

The first comprehensive work on the political and cognitive dimensions of Chinese historical consciousness set against its Western counterpart.

Author : Q. Edward Wang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791447324

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Inventing China through History by Q. Edward Wang Pdf

A critical examination of the rise of national history in early-twentieth-century China.