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A Thorough Exploration in Historiography/ Shitong. By Liu Zhiji. Translated and with an introduction by Victor Cunrui Xiong. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. 1104 pp. $150 (cloth)

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A Thorough Exploration in Historiography/ Shitong. By Liu Zhiji. Translated and with an introduction by Victor Cunrui Xiong. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. 1104 pp. $150 (cloth)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2025

Peter Lorge*
Affiliation:
History, Vanderbilt University , USA Email: peter.lorge@vanderbilt.edu

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References

1 See for example the various chapters in Daniel Wolf, ed., The Oxford History of Historical Writing, 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

2 Miao Xiaojing, “‘Defying the Times’: Liu Zhiji’s Resignation Letter Reconsidered,” Tang Studies 40 (2022), 55–82.