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The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader

Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History

By Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, David Schaberg

Essential passages from a classic Chinese history, organized topically, introduced, and annotated

Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722...

Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan左傳

Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals"

By Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, David Schaberg

Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China’s first great work of...

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

By Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, and Hans van Ess

Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the...