The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography |
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| Author:
| Li, Wai-yee |
| Series title: | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-01777-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University, Asia Center
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.50 |
Book Description:
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What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text's formation.
What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text's formation.