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Notes on the textual relation between the Kuo yü and the Tso chuan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

William G. Boltz
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It is well known that a large number of the accounts in the Kuo yü have matching counterparts in the Tso chuan. By my count there are at least 73 Kuo yü accounts with Tso chuan parallels; this out of a total of 241 separate Kuo yü accounts altogether. This means that by percentage of accounts (vs. percentage of text) 30% of the Kuo yü bears some textual relation to the Tso chuan, a proportion surely large enough to justify looking into the question of what that relation is. The degree to which each of these 73 Kuo yü accounts matches its Tso chuan parallel varies considerably. At one extreme there are cases where only a very few lines, names, or words signal the fact of an underlying textual relation. At the other extreme virtually the whole Kuo yü passage may appear with only slight variations in the Tso chuan. Most of the 73 fall somewhere in between these two extremes.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , October 1990 , pp. 491 - 502
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1990

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