Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals", 3 Volume Set

Durrant, Stephen (Translator)/ Li, Wai-Yee (Translator)/ Schaberg, David (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0295999152 / ISBN 13: 9780295999159

Published by Univ of Washington Pr, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals", 3 Volume Set
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295999152
• ISBN 13: 9780295999159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China’s first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

About the Author

Stephen Durrant is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Oregon. He is the coauthor of The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China. Wai-yee Li is professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University. She is the author of The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography. David Schaberg is professor of Asian languages and culture at UCLA. He is the author of A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography.