Ban Gu's history of early China / by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inscribing the past: a history of Chinese history -- The perennial dangers of direct criticism -- Praise, blame, and the modes of judgment -- Inscribing the text: a history of the history of the Han -- "True editions" and Qing skepticism -- Structure and sources of the history of the Han -- Accretions and additions -- From Han to PRC: filiations of transmission -- Inscribing the family: a history of the Ban clan -- Ban Gu, Sima Qian, and rewriting the past -- Inscribing genealogy -- Ban Bo and the family's rise to a consort clan -- Narrating though the dangers of court -- Historicizing advantage: highlighting privilege, loyalty, and influence -- Inscribing the self: ban gu's positioning of text and self -- Eclipse of the imperial family: Wang Mang and the Liu eviction -- Constructing Wang Mang: duplicity, omenology, and despotism -- Inheriting family principles in the wake of political collapse -- Ban Gu: filial son and favored historian -- A new heaven, a new mandate -- Inscribing the state: killing snakes, chasing deer, and reconceiving -- Heaven's mandate -- Heaven and its mandate: earlier assumptions and later innovations -- Killing snakes: legitimizing the Han's mandate -- Chasing deer: a predetermined and permanent mandate -- Zan : a final appraisal.

Local access dig. epub [Clark-Ban Gu.epub]

Lishi wenben de wenhua jian jiaozhi : Zhongguo shanggu lishi ji qi Ouzhou shuxie 歷史文本的文化間交織 : 中國上古歷史及其歐洲書寫. [The Intercultural weaving of historical texts: Chinese and European stories about Emperor Ku and his concubines. Chinese] / Zhong mingdan 鍾鳴旦 translated by Chen yanrong 陳妍蓉

"本書是著名漢學家鐘鳴旦教授（Nicolas Standaert）關於十七、十八世紀中歐歷史編纂學和歷史紀年學交流的研究成果之一。主要考察了明末清初出現的一種特殊體裁的史書——“綱鑒體”史著——在中西文化交流中所扮演的角色，及其對西方的中國上古歷史書寫所產生的影響。這本書主要分為兩個部分，第一部分分別討論明末清初綱鑒體史著譜系和來華歐洲人對中國歷史和年代學的敘述以及他們的中文史料來源，在對比二者的基礎上引出本書的核心觀點——中國歷史書寫中的文化間交織；第二部分以中國上古歷史中帝嚳及其妻妾為中心，通過不同文本中的不同記載來追蹤嚳的人生軌跡及其妻妾“神奇生子”的傳說，並以此作為一條主要線索，重構史書文本的譜系以及不同類型史書間的差異，通過跨文化詮釋學的視角探討歐洲人對中國歷史文本的解讀。" (book vendor's description)

The intercultural weaving of historical texts : Chinese and European stories about Emperor Ku and his concubines / by Nicolas Standaert.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English with some Chinese.

"The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay proposes an early case of “intercultural historiography,” in which historical texts of different cultures are interwoven.
It focusses on the ways Chinese and European authors interpreted stories about marvellous births by the concubines of Emperor Ku. These stories have been the object of a wide variety of interpretations in Chinese texts, each of them representing a different historical genre. They are excellent case-studies to illustrate how the Chinese hermeneutic strategies shaped the diversity of interpretations given by Europeans."--Publisher note.

Part 1. Between Chinese and European Sources: Europeans Writing Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 1. Comprehensive Histories in Late Ming and Early Qing and the Genealogy of the Gangjian 綱鑑 -- 2. Jesuit Accounts of Chinese History and Chronology and their Chinese Sources -- Part 2. Between Text and Commentaries: Europeans Reading Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Chinese Interpretations of Marvellous Births -- 4. Jesuit Interpretations of Marvellous Births.