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Record Nr.

UNISA996248055503316

Autore

Schaberg David <1964->

Titolo

A patterned past : form and thought in early Chinese historiography / / David Schaberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , 2001

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2001

ISBN

1-68417-361-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 503 p. )

Collana

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; ; 205

Disciplina

931/.03/072

Soggetti

Historiography - China

China History Spring and Autumn period, 722-481 B.C Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-470) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Rhetoric of Good Order -- Wen and the Meaning of Verbal Art -- Intelligibility in the Extra-human World -- Order in the Human World -- The Anecdotal History -- Narrative and Recompense -- Aesthetics and Meaning -- Writing and the Ends of History -- Orality and the Origins of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chinese Character List -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.