Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th 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 moralising 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.

A Patterned past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography

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Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China, by Lisa Raphals (Book Review)

Zuo Tradition. Zuozhuan 左傳: Commentary on the “Spring and Autumn Annals.”

(2010). The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography. The Chinese Historical Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 247-249.

The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography

This article examines narrative speed in early Chinese historical works. With a focus on Shiji (Records of the Historian), it compares accounts of the same historical events in Shiji, Zuozhuan (Zuo...

Yang Lei

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How versus What : Changes in Narrative Speed from Zuozhuan and Shiji to Hanshu