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Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed
by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity
from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in
Chinese culture, has been newly translated into English by Stephen
Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg in an unabridged,
bilingual, three-volume set. This reader arranges key passages from
that set according to topic, as a guide to the study of early
Chinese culture and thought. Chapter subjects include succession
struggles; women; warfare; ritual propriety; governance; law and
punishment; famous statesmen; diplomacy; Confucius and his
disciples; dreams and anomalies; and cultural others. An
introduction explains the nature and significance of Zuozhuan and
discusses how to read the text. Section introductions and judicious
footnoting provide contextual information and explain the
historical significance and meaning of particular events. The Zuo
Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader will appeal to readers interested in
Chinese and world history, claiming a place on library and personal
bookshelves alongside other narratives from the ancient world.
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 of Volume Three, accompanied
by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will
finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.
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 of Volume Two, accompanied
by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will
finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.
Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed
by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity
from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in
Chinese culture, has been newly translated into English by Stephen
Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg in an unabridged,
bilingual, three-volume set. This reader arranges key passages from
that set according to topic, as a guide to the study of early
Chinese culture and thought. Chapter subjects include succession
struggles; women; warfare; ritual propriety; governance; law and
punishment; famous statesmen; diplomacy; Confucius and his
disciples; dreams and anomalies; and cultural others. An
introduction explains the nature and significance of Zuozhuan and
discusses how to read the text. Section introductions and judicious
footnoting provide contextual information and explain the
historical significance and meaning of particular events. The Zuo
Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader will appeal to readers interested in
Chinese and world history, claiming a place on library and personal
bookshelves alongside other narratives from the ancient world.
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the
Historian (Shiji), is China's earliest and best-known historian,
and his "Letter to Ren An" is the most famous letter in Chinese
history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish
his life's work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead
of honorably committing suicide following his castration for
"deceiving the emperor." In the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, some scholars have queried the authenticity of the
letter. Is it a genuine piece of writing by Sima Qian or an early
work of literary impersonation? The Letter to Ren An and Sima
Qian's Legacy provides a full translation of the letter and uses
different methods to explore issues in textual history. It also
shows how ideas about friendship, loyalty, factionalism, and
authorship encoded in the letter have far-reaching implications for
the study of China.
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the
Historian (Shiji), is China's earliest and best-known historian,
and his "Letter to Ren An" is the most famous letter in Chinese
history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish
his life's work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead
of honorably committing suicide following his castration for
"deceiving the emperor." In the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, some scholars have queried the authenticity of the
letter. Is it a genuine piece of writing by Sima Qian or an early
work of literary impersonation? The Letter to Ren An and Sima
Qian's Legacy provides a full translation of the letter and uses
different methods to explore issues in textual history. It also
shows how ideas about friendship, loyalty, factionalism, and
authorship encoded in the letter have far-reaching implications for
the study of China.
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine
memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of
collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the
ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites,
those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and
those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of
Emperor Wu's wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with
Ssu-ma Ch'ien's postface containing a history of his family and
himself.
The 16 chapters translated herein continue the biographies of
individuals in pre-Han China presented in volume seven of The Grand
Scribe's Records. The reader is introduced to the major supporters
and rivals of the founders of the Han Dynasty: the generals,
advisors, strategists, and ministers who helped to shape the
foundations of the first sustained empire in Chinese history.
Although these men were often of common stock, they influenced the
development of many aspects of the Han culture, a culture which in
turn served as a model for subsequent eras. Based on oral and
written accounts as well as on administrative records, these
biographies range stylistically from anecdotal tales to repetitious
reports of achievements in battle. The failure of the first five
Han emperors to trust the loyalty of their subordinates is a
leitmotif in many of these chapters. But the individual motifs that
echo other sections of the Grand Scribe's Records unrecognized
heroes, both loyal and disloyal retainers, broken friendships, and
faithless lovers also appear in these pages."
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.
A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient
Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether
they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys
selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of
roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including
Homer's "Odyssey," the ancient Chinese "Classic of Poetry,"
Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War," Sima Qian's
"Records of the Historian," Plato's "Symposium," and Laozi's "Dao
de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi." The intention, through such
juxtaposition, is to introduce the foundational texts of each
tradition which continue to influence the majority of the world's
population.
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