The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE By Charles Hartman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $120.00 (cloth).

likely that both philosophies (and other schools) had their followers at all times but were more or less favored under different circumstances. Far from sentiments of a bygone age, we can see echoes of the Li and Staunton in the post-1860 era of diplomatic and cultural exchanges, from the diaries of diplomats and travelers telling the same kinds of heroic and complex tales, even in the eras of imperialism and nationalism. It would be interesting to know under which circumstances different approaches to translation prevailed, and how they interacted historically.