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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 Chine
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In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections
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"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 readabili
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What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and their descri
Mirroring the Past
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