Historical Accounts and Common Views (A Comparison of Western and Chinese Historiography)

Author: Wang Rongzu [USA]
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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. Based on The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons·Chapter on Historiography, the book is divided into twenty-four topics, including: Records, Recording Events and Speeches, Highlighting Virtue and Condemning Vice, Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Zhuan, The Strategies 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, Critique and Evaluation, General Synthesis, Critique and Matching, Trustworthy History, Recording Simultaneously, Pure Heart, Straight Pen, Comprehensive Understanding, and the Duty of Historians. Major issues in both Eastern and Western historiography are analyzed, with the book drawing extensively from sources and offering unique insights, demonstrating the author's decades of dedication to historical studies and its enduring academic value. An appendix includes a list of cited works, a translation name, and a name index.