书名：Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals / 《春秋》编纂：古代中国编年史的形式与等级
定价：568.0
ISBN：9780231206501
作者：Newell Ann Van Auken
版次：1
出版时间：2023-03

内容提要：
书名：Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals / 《春秋》编纂：古代中国编年史的形式与等级
作者：Newell Ann Van Auken
出版社：Columbia University Press，2023年
装帧：精装，352页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm

ISBN：978-0-2312-0650-1

简介
《春秋》是早期中国的编年体文献，记录时间跨度从公元前8世纪到前5世纪，源自孔子故国——鲁国的官方史书。传统上认为孔子编纂了《春秋》，并运用“微言大义”的笔法来褒贬历史事件，两千多年来它一直被视为最重要的中国经典之一。
本书采取了一种全新的研究方法，通过对《春秋》中呈现规律性特征的记录类别进行分析，揭示其“形式上规律的核心”（formally regular core）所蕴含的价值与优先次序。分析表明，理解《春秋》的关键不在于其内容，而在于其形式：这些记录系统性地运用形式特征来标记事件、人物和诸侯国的相对重要性，体现了一种对等级、高位和相对秩序的深切关注。通过这些程式化的记录系统，《春秋》呈现了一个以鲁国为中心的个人与诸侯国等级秩序，试图将鲁国及其统治者置于这一理想化等级秩序的顶端。

The Spring and Autumn is an early Chinese register of events covering the eight to fifth centuries BCE, originating from the official state annals of Lu, the home state of Confucius. Tradition attributes the Spring and Autumn to Confucius, claiming that it employs subtle clues that convey his evaluations of its recorded events, and for over two thousand years, it was regarded as one of the most important Chinese classics. Despite its significance in China, the Spring and Autumn has been largely neglected and is poorly understood in the West, perhaps for the simple reason that its records, which are brief, impersonal, and highly formulaic, look nothing like the coded moral judgments that tradition claims them to be.

Spring and Autumn Historiography takes the opposite tack, analyzing categories of records that exhibit regular patterns with the aim of exposing the values and priorities that underlie the Spring and Autumn's formally regular core, which was likely produced by Lu record-keepers. This analysis shows that the key to the records lies not in their content but in their form: the records systematically use formal features to mark the relative importance of events, individual leaders, and states, and they reflect a deep concern with hierarchy, high position, and relative rank. Through its formulaic system of recording, the Spring and Autumn presents a Lu-centered hierarchy of individuals and states and seeks to display the exalted position of Lu and the Lu ruler at the pinnacle of this idealized hierarchy.