{"product_id":"a-patterned-past-david-schaberg-9780674008618","title":"A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography","description":"In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the \u003ci\u003eZuozhuan\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuoyu\u003c\/i\u003e, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Schaberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674008618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674008618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.32w x 1.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 531","brand":"David Schaberg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086754066687,"sku":"9780674008618","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d689a9c2-caf4-4ded-8387-9e0f093d7ad6.jpg?v=1769096382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-patterned-past-david-schaberg-9780674008618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}