书名：A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography / 模式化的过去:中国早期史学的形式与思想
定价：485.0
ISBN：9780674008618
作者：Schaberg, David
版次：1
出版时间：2002-01

内容提要：
书名：A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography / 有章可循的过去：早期中国史学中的形式与思想
作者：David Schaberg (戴维·沙伯格)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2001年
装帧：精装，503–528页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.9*23.1 cm

ISBN：978-0-6740-0861-8

简介
本书对《左传》和《国语》的修辞、叙事模式及思想内容进行了全面研究。作者戴维·沙伯格将这两部历史轶事集视为公元前四世纪左右孔子追随者中盛行的一种史学实践的痕迹。他认为，这些文本所呈现的早期中国连贯图景是其起源及强加的阅读习惯所产生的效果。与其说它们是准确无误的记载，不如说它们代表了一批官员和臣子为宣扬对早期中国历史事件的道德化解读，以及为彰显自身作为事件阐释者和统治者顾问的价值而进行的努力。

In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather than being totally accurate accounts, they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day.