David Schaberg is professor of Asian languages and culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard, 2002); and cotranslator of Zuo Traditions / Zuozhuan 左傳 (UWP, 2017) and The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader: Selections from China's Earliest Narrative History (UWP, 2020).