The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the History of Liu-Song, a dynastic history of the fifth century compiled in 488. Zeb Raft shows how history was constructed through rhetorical elements including the narration of officialdom, the anecdote, and, above all, the historical document.

Zeb Raft is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica.