The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China

by Zeb Raft

What happens when historiography--the way historical events are committed to writing--shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly "life-writing," its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds?

The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores these questions through the lens of the History of Liu-Song,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674291379
• ISBN13: 9780674291379
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 282 Pages