Newell Ann Van Auken teaches at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn (2016).

• List of TablesList of SetsAcknowledgmentsScholarly ConventionsChronology: Lu Rulers of the Spring and AutumnIntroduction1. Orientations: Approaches to Spring and Autumn Historiography2. Recording the Day3. Encoding Individual Rank4. An Idealized Interstate Order5.Registering Judgments6. Concealing SubmissionConclusions: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular CoreAppendix 1: Defining a “Record”Appendix 2: Event Types in the Spring and AutumnAppendix 3: Diachronic Changes in Frequency and Form in the Spring and AutumnNotesBibliographyIndex

Newell Ann Van Auken’s pathbreaking scholarship demolishes the old conventional view of the Spring and Autumn as a dull and uninteresting chronicle. Her elegant analysis of how the text’s rule-based formulaic language served the interests of the lords of Lu opens the way to an exciting new view of the political dynamics of early China.

Newell Ann Van Auken teaches at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn (2016).

• List of TablesList of SetsAcknowledgmentsScholarly ConventionsChronology: Lu Rulers of the Spring and AutumnIntroduction1. Orientations: Approaches to Spring and Autumn Historiography2. Recording the Day3. Encoding Individual Rank4. An Idealized Interstate Order5.Registering Judgments6. Concealing SubmissionConclusions: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular CoreAppendix 1: Defining a “Record”Appendix 2: Event Types in the Spring and AutumnAppendix 3: Diachronic Changes in Frequency and Form in the Spring and AutumnNotesBibliographyIndex

Newell Ann Van Auken’s pathbreaking scholarship demolishes the old conventional view of the Spring and Autumn as a dull and uninteresting chronicle. Her elegant analysis of how the text’s rule-based formulaic language served the interests of the lords of Lu opens the way to an exciting new view of the political dynamics of early China.

Newell Ann Van Auken teaches at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn (2016).

• List of TablesList of SetsAcknowledgmentsScholarly ConventionsChronology: Lu Rulers of the Spring and AutumnIntroduction1. Orientations: Approaches to Spring and Autumn Historiography2. Recording the Day3. Encoding Individual Rank4. An Idealized Interstate Order5.Registering Judgments6. Concealing SubmissionConclusions: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular CoreAppendix 1: Defining a “Record”Appendix 2: Event Types in the Spring and AutumnAppendix 3: Diachronic Changes in Frequency and Form in the Spring and AutumnNotesBibliographyIndex

Newell Ann Van Auken’s pathbreaking scholarship demolishes the old conventional view of the Spring and Autumn as a dull and uninteresting chronicle. Her elegant analysis of how the text’s rule-based formulaic language served the interests of the lords of Lu opens the way to an exciting new view of the political dynamics of early China.