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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 Historiography

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

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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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.

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