Records of historical readings in print?

[thinbuddha]

Are there any books in print that cover records of readings from the past?

I would be interested in reading a book full of historical readings, interpretations and actual outcomes. Anything like that out there in English?

[sparhawk]

The Chinese literature and historical records are littered with readings and interpretations. A good book to start is "Records of the Grand Historian" (http://www.amazon.com/Records-Grand-Historian-Han-Dynasty/dp/0231081650/ref=sr_1_1/103-6570832-5749428?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181068967&sr=1-1). That just a start, there are many papers by Western sinologists where they quote such readings from Chinese originals. Google can find some of those for you.

L

[bradford]

The oldest on record are from the Zuozhuan

Smith, Kidder "Zhouyi Interpretation from Accounts in the Zuozhuan." Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies. 49:2 (1989): 421-63.

Legge, James, The Ch'un Ts'ew, with the Tso Chuen [Chunqiu & Zuozhuan], with
minor text corrections and a Concordance Table. Hong Kong University
Press, 1960, 1970. Chinese Classics series, v5. PL 2461 R43 1970 v.5.
Bilingual. Also found in English only at sacredtexts.org

[pargenton]

but I think there are some historical readings in Rutt's book.

Bashir

[cejudesc]

Rutt quoted Zuozhuan's records.