Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF TABLES ix
4. LIST OF SETS xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
6. SCHOLARLY CONVENTIONS xvii
7. CHRONOLOGY: LU RULERS OF THE SPRING AND AUTUMN xxi
8. INTRODUCTION 1
9. Chapter One. ORIENTATIONS 13
10. Chapter Two. RECORDING THE DAY 30
11. Chapter Three. ENCODING INDIVIDUAL RANK 64
12. Chapter Four. AN IDEALIZED INTERSTATE ORDER 101
13. Chapter Five. REGISTERING JUDGMENTS 142
14. Chapter Six. CONCEALING SUBMISSION 178
15. CONCLUSIONS: Spring and Autumn Historiography and the Formally Regular Core 213
16. Appendix 1. DEFINING A “RECORD” 233
17. Appendix 2. EVENT TYPES IN THE SPRING AND AUTUMN 239
18. Appendix 3. DIACHRONIC CHANGES IN FREQUENCY AND FORM IN THE SPRING AND AUTUMN 247
19. NOTES 257
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 307
21. INDEX 319