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Spring and Autumn Historiography - Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals

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

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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

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Newell Ann Van Auken

Summary

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

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Authors Newell Ann van Auken, Newell Ann Van Auken
Publisher Columbia University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.04.2023
 
EAN 9780231206501
ISBN 978-0-231-20650-1
No. of pages 352
Series Tang Center Series in Early China
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

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