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The official dynastic histories apply to the course of Chinese history the criterion of Confucian ethics; for them history is a textbook of ethics, designed to show by means of examples how the man of high character should behave or not behave. We have to go deeper, and try to extract the historic truth from these records. Many specialized studies by Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars on problems of Chinese history are now available and of assistance in this task.
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A History of China, Wolfram Eberhard
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- Released
- 1977
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- Title
- A History of China
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Wolfram Eberhard
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 0520032276
- ISBN13
- 9780520032279
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, China
- Description
- The official dynastic histories apply to the course of Chinese history the criterion of Confucian ethics; for them history is a textbook of ethics, designed to show by means of examples how the man of high character should behave or not behave. We have to go deeper, and try to extract the historic truth from these records. Many specialized studies by Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars on problems of Chinese history are now available and of assistance in this task.