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What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text's formation.

The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 1/8/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674017771, 978-0674017771
      ISBN10: 0674017773

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      Book Synopsis
      What are the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge? This book explores these issues through a study of the Zuozhuan, a foundational text in the Chinese tradition, whose rhetorical and analytical self-consciousness reveals much about the contending ways of thought unfolding during the period of the text's formation.

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