Rina Marie Camus, Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Lexington Books, 2020. xii, 109 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. US$ 90 (HB). ISBN 978-1-4985-9720-3

give up when being confronted with the complete version. It is to be hoped that the Zuozhuan Reader will whet the appetite of future students to explore the full world of the Zuozhuan when having read the starters presented here. Unlike the case of the Shiji, nobody has so far suggested that there is a common thread running through the Zuozhuan. As has been stated above, this work is simply very difficult to understand. Maybe the publication of the Reader-version will present a good starting-point for a new generation of scholars who will try to unravel the enigma of the Zuozhuan itself and to take scholarship concerning this first narrative history of ancient China to a level unreached so far.