This book is a major achievement, one that will open many avenues for research into the mind and method of the most influential cosmological synthesis of ancient China.
Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania With this first complete translation of the famed Chunqiu fanlu, Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major have met a level of sinological scholarship and ... Read moreerudition seldom achieved since it was first set by James Legge's translations in the 1870s. Limpid throughout and with many and varied commentaries on the text and its context, this work is guaranteed to find a place on the bookshelf of every serious student of classical Chinese history and philosophy. Bravo!
Henry Rosemont Jr., Brown University In this first complete translation of a complex and frequently misunderstood text, expert translator-editors Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major show how the work was brought together by some unknown compiler, long after the death of the reputed author, Dong Zhongshu. The translation is fluent, the scholarship impeccable, and the interpretations convincing: it will not be surpassed for many generations.
Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University Queen and Major offer far more than a reliable, rigorous, and meticulous translation of a major work of ancient Chinese political thought: theirs is a new reading of the notoriously sprawling Chunqiu fanlu together with an exemplary, sophisticated study of the text as a layered, composite work, revealing in detail its multiple ideological agendas and contexts from across the centuries of early imperial intellectual history. An exemplary accomplishment and a wonderful resource for students and scholars alike!
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