"The conference in which these papers were presented was held in January, 1997 in the Bahamas"--T.p. verso

Introduction / Thomas H. C. Lee

1 Mirror for government : Ssu-ma Kuang's thought on politics and government in Tzu-chih t'ung-chien / Xiao-bin Ji 1

2 Great Confucian or mere strategist? : Chia I in the eyes of Sung thinkers / Kojima Tsuyoshi 33

3 Textual liberties and restraints in rewriting China's histories : the case of Ssu-ma Kuang's re-construction of Chu-ko Liang's story / Hoyt Cleveland Tillman 61

4 The philosophical argumentation by historical narration in Sung China : the case of Chu Hsi / Chun-chieh Huang 107

5 Hu Hung as historian / Conrad Schirokauer 121

6 History, erudition and good government : Cheng Ch'iao and encyclopedic historical thinking / Thomas H. C. Lee 163

7 History in Sung classical learning : the case of the Odes (Shih-ching) / Achim Mittag 201

8 Reinventing the genealogy : innovation in kinship practice in the tenth to eleventh centuries / Hugh R. Clark 237

9 Historiography in Southern Sung dyansty local gazetteers / James M. Hargett 287

10 Local history and family in past and present / Peter K. Bol 307

11 Sung discourse on the history of Chinese imperial kin and clans / John W. Chaffee 349

12 Writing a comprehensive and untold history of Buddhism : some aspects of Tsu-hsiu's historiography / Chi-chiang Huang 375

Glossary 415

Bibliography 437

Contributors 467

Index 471