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 B.C.E. 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.
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