Spring And Autumn Historiography
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Spring And Autumn Historiography
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Author : Newell Ann Van Auken
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-14
Spring And Autumn Historiography written by Newell Ann Van Auken and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with History categories.
The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722–479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Chinese state of Lu. A long neglected part of the Chinese canon, it is traditionally ascribed to Confucius, who is said to have embedded his evaluations of events within the text. However, the formulaic and impersonal records do not resemble the repository of moral judgments that they are alleged to be. Driven by her discovery that the Spring and Autumn is governed by a system of rules, Newell Ann Van Auken argues that Lu record-keepers—not a later editor—produced the formally regular core of the text. She demonstrates that the Spring and Autumn employs formulaic phrasing and selective omission to encode the priorities of Lu and to communicate the relative importance of individuals, states, and events, and that many of its records are derived from diplomatic announcements received in Lu from regional states and the Zhou court. The Spring and Autumn is fundamentally a document designed to enhance the prestige of Lu, and its records reveal a profound concern with relative rank, displaying an idealized hierarchy that positions the state of Lu and its rulers at the apex. By establishing the Spring and Autumn as a genuine Bronze Age record, this book transforms our understanding of its significance and purpose, and also offers new approaches to the study of ancient annals in early China and elsewhere.
Zuo Tradition Zuozhuan
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language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Zuo Tradition Zuozhuan written by and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies 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.
An Historical Sketch Of Chinese Historiography
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Author : Huaiqi Wu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-09
An Historical Sketch Of Chinese Historiography written by Huaiqi Wu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with History categories.
This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their philosophical foundations, their development over three thousand years and their influence on the intelligentsia. China is a country defined in terms of its history and its historians have worked hard to record the past. However, this book approaches Chinese history from the very beginning not only as a way of recording, but also as a way of dealing with the past in order to orient the people of the present in the temporal dimension of their lives. This book was listed as the key textbook of the “Eleventh Five-year Plan” for college students in China.
Zuozhuan And Early Chinese Historiography
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Author : Yuri Pines
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-10-30
Zuozhuan And Early Chinese Historiography written by Yuri Pines and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with History categories.
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.
The Tso Chuan
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Author : Ming Zuoqiu
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1989
The Tso Chuan written by Ming Zuoqiu and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Presents selections from the Tso-chuan, China's oldest work of narrative history. Its entries provide a year by year account of happenings in the feudal state that made up China from 722 to 468 BC.
Turning Points In Historiography
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Author : Q. Edward Wang
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2002
Turning Points In Historiography written by Q. Edward Wang and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
An examination of how historical thinking has changed in recent years, through a comparison between Eastern and Western epochs.
Text And Ritual In Early China
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Author : Martin Kern
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2007
Text And Ritual In Early China written by Martin Kern and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
NEW IN PAPERBACK"Crossing the fields of Chinese history, literature, philology, and archaeology, this important collection examines understanding of the most fundamental aspects of the Chinese literary tradition and challenges established ideas about classical Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and pre-Han texts."ChoiceMartin Kern is associate professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. The other contributors are William G. Boltz, K. E. Brashier, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Joachim Gentz, Michael Nylan, David Schaberg, and Lothar von Falkenhausen.
Routledge Handbook Of Traditional Chinese Literature
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Author : Victor Mair
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-01-30
Routledge Handbook Of Traditional Chinese Literature written by Victor Mair and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644–1911), the last empire of China. With a focus on well-known authors and masterpieces in each important genre, this volume covers verses, prose, drama, and fiction arranged in the following thematic groupings: Pre-Qin and Han poetry, poetry of the Six Dynasties, poetry of the Tang, poetry of the Song, and lyrics of the Song Prose of historians, prose of philosophers, and literati prose Tragedy and romance in Yuan drama, southern plays of ethics, and chuanqi plays of the Ming and the Qing Classical-language tales, vernacular short stories, heroic romances, novels of spirits and devils, novels of manners and satire, and novels of social exposure and prostitution Featuring both introductions and in-depth analyses, this Handbook incorporates the most recent scholarly works for each entry and also facilitates future research by providing further readings. Authored by a stellar line-up of experts in the field of Chinese literature, this is an essential reference guide for all students and scholars in the fields of Chinese literature and culture.
Buddhist Historiography In China
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Author : John Kieschnick
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-29
Buddhist Historiography In China written by John Kieschnick and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with Religion categories.
Winner, 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, they attempted to determine as precisely as possible the dates of events in the Buddha’s life, seeking to iron out discrepancies in varying accounts and pinpoint when he delivered which sermons. Buddhist writers chronicled the history of the Dharma in China as well, compiling biographies of eminent monks and nuns and detailing the rise and decline in the religion’s fortunes under various rulers. They searched for evidence of karma in the historical record and drew on prophecy to explain the past. John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens. Exploring a series of themes in mainstream Buddhist historiographical works from the fifth to the twentieth century, he looks not so much for what they reveal about the people and events they describe as for what they tell us about their compilers’ understanding of history. Kieschnick examines how Buddhist doctrines influenced the search for the underlying principles driving history, the significance of genealogy in Buddhist writing, and the transformation of Buddhist historiography in the twentieth century. This book casts new light on the intellectual history of Chinese Buddhism and on Buddhists’ understanding of the past.
The Craft Of Oblivion
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Author : Albert Galvany
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2023-07-01
The Craft Of Oblivion written by Albert Galvany and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-01 with History categories.
Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory, even though it performs an essential function in our lives. Forgetting and memory, far from being autonomous and mutually exclusive spheres, should be seen as interdependent phenomena. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its complex and fertile relations with memory in ancient China.