Newell Ann Van Auken: Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals by Edward L. Shaughnessy

“…In her most recent book, Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals, the sub-title of which is particularly informative, she explores five different aspects of the formal properties of the text to argue that the Spring and Autumn was a conscious attempt to elevate the status of the state of Lu 魯, the state of which it is an annalistic history. …”
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