Historical Accounts and Common Views – A Comparison of Chinese and Western Historiography

Author: [USA] Wang Rongzu
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The author is a senior professor and historian at Virginia State University in the United States, with expertise spanning both Eastern and Western studies. This book is based on the "Historical Records Chapter" of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and is divided into twenty-four thematic sections, including: Records, Recording Events and Speeches, Highlighting Virtue and Condemning Vice, Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Zhuan, The Statesmen of the Warring States, Sima Qian, Biographies, Ban Gu, Later Han Histories, Chen Shou, Histories of the Wicked Dynasties, Centuries Past, Prosperity and Decline, Stone Chamber and Golden Treasury, Criticizing and Evaluating, General Synthesis, Matching Criticisms, Trustworthy History, Recording Simultaneously, Pure Heart, Writing Straightly, Comprehensive Understanding, and the Duty of Historians. Major issues in both Eastern and Western historiography are thoroughly analyzed. The book is well-researched with unique insights, demonstrating the author's decades of dedication to historical studies, which remains highly scholarly valuable to this day. An index of cited works, a translation name comparison table, and a name index are included at the end of the book.