Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China

ISBN-13: 9780824884338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 300 str.

On-Cho Ng; Q. Edward Wang

Opis

Far more than a record of the past, history to the Chinese is the magister vitae (teacher of life): the storehouse of moral lessons and bureaucratic precedents. Mirroring the Past presents a comprehensive history of traditional Chinese historiography from antiquity to the mid-Qing period.