Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004678378)

Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability.
In the present volume--the first of its kind in any Western language--leading scholars of ancient China, Greece, and Rome approach Zuozhuan from multi-faceted perspectives to examine in detail Zuozhuan's sources, narrative patterns, and meta-narrative devices; analyze the text in dialogue with other ancient Chinese works; and open it to the comparative study with ancient Greek and Roman historiography.
Contributors are: Chen Minzhen, Stephen Durrant, Joachim Gentz, Martin Kern, Wai-yee Li, Nino Luraghi, Ellen O'Gorman, Yuri Pines, David Schaberg, and Kai Vogelsang.

Author: Yuri Pines
ISBN-10: 9004678379
ISBN-13: 9789004678378
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover