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 Chine

"The past becomes readable when we can tell stories and make arguments about it. When we can tell more than one story or make divergent arguments, the readabili

Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and wi

A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.