A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard East Asian Monographs (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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Short Description for A Patterned Past In this 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 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 15 April 2002
- Format: Hardback 530 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Historiography | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780674008618 ISBN 10: 0674008618
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Full description for A Patterned Past
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 4th 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 moralising 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.
