Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" Volume 2 (Classics of Chinese Thought)

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China's first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation of Volume Two, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

• The Book of Rites (Li Ji): English-Chinese Version (English and Chinese Edition)
• Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Translations from the Asian Classics)
• Chinese History: A New Manual, Fifth Edition
• The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
• The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900CE) (Oxford Handbooks)
• The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China (Translations from the Asian Classics)
• A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions (Early China Special Monograph Series)
• Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
• Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II
• The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (Translations from the Asian Classic)