Newell Ann Van Auken

Spring and Autumn Historiography

Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722à â â 479 BCE. Newell Ann Van Auken argues that record-keepers from the ancient Chinese state of Luà â â not a later editorà â â produced the formally regular core of the text.

Produktdetails

• Tang Center Series in Early China
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 166mm x 243mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780231206501
• ISBN-10: 023120650X
• Artikelnr.: 65913074

Autorenporträt

Newell Ann Van Auken teaches at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Sets
Acknowledgments
Scholarly Conventions
Chronology: Lu Rulers of the Spring and Autumn
Introduction
1. Orientations: Approaches to Spring and Autumn Historiography
2. Recording the Day
3. Encoding Individual Rank
4. An Idealized Interstate Order
5.Registering Judgments
6. Concealing Submission
Conclusions: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular Core
Appendix 1: Defining a "Record"
Appendix 2: Event Types in the Spring and Autumn
Appendix 3: Diachronic Changes in Frequency and Form in the Spring and
Autumn
Notes
Bibliography
Index