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Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines details the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China.
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Preface
Note on Translations, References, and Dates
Introduction: The Riddle of Zhou Historiography
Part I. Rethinking Early Chinese History Writing
1. Zhou Historiography as Seen from the Transmitted Texts
2. Xinian and Zhou Historiography
3. Zhou Historiography in Other Newly Discovered Sources
4. Beyond Sima Qian: Zhou History Revisited
5. Chu Historiography and Chu Cultural Identity
Part II. Xinian Translation and Commentary
Xinian 1
Xinian 2
Xinian 3
Xinian 4
Xinian 5
Xinian 6
Xinian 7
Xinian 8
Xinian 9
Xinian 10
Xinian 11
Xinian 12
Xinian 13
Xinian 14
Xinian 15
Xinian 16
Xinian 17
Xinian 18
Xinian 19
Xinian 20
Xinian 21
Xinian 22
Xinian 23
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Résumé
Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines details the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China.
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A splendid addition to the scholarship on the Xinian, one that shows once again why Yuri Pines is the Western world’s foremost historian of early China.
