Spring and autumn historiography : form and hierarchy in ancient Chinese annals

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    • Van Auken, Newell Ann

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Spring and autumn historiography : form and hierarchy in ancient Chinese annals

Newell Ann Van Auken

(Tang center series in early China)

Columbia University Press, c2023

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-317) and index

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内容説明

The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722-479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Chinese state of Lu. A long neglected part of the Chinese canon, it is traditionally ascribed to Confucius, who is said to have embedded his evaluations of events within the text. However, the formulaic and impersonal records do not resemble the repository of moral judgments that they are alleged to be. Driven by her discovery that the Spring and Autumn is governed by a system of rules, Newell Ann Van Auken argues that Lu record-keepers-not a later editor-produced the formally regular core of the text. She demonstrates that the Spring and Autumn employs formulaic phrasing and selective omission to encode the priorities of Lu and to communicate the relative importance of individuals, states, and events, and that many of its records are derived from diplomatic announcements received in Lu from regional states and the Zhou court. The Spring and Autumn is fundamentally a document designed to enhance the prestige of Lu, and its records reveal a profound concern with relative rank, displaying an idealized hierarchy that positions the state of Lu and its rulers at the apex. By establishing the Spring and Autumn as a genuine Bronze Age record, this book transforms our understanding of its significance and purpose, and also offers new approaches to the study of ancient annals in early China and elsewhere.

目次

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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