A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
David Schaberg - Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2001
Book description
The narratives are so constructed as to demonstrate the truth and indeed the naturalness of these attitudes. Their dominant perspective is that of officials rather than rulers, and the anecdotes represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of Zhou history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisors to the rulers of the day."--BOOK JACKET.
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