Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan

Olivia Milburn, Ph.D (2003), SOAS, is Associate Professor of Chinese at Seoul National University. She has published a number of books on ancient China, including The Glory of Yue. An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu (Brill, 2010).

"Milburn should be particularly congratulated on her contribution to what appears to be renewed engagement with Yanzi Chunqiu on the part of Western scholars. Her translation is fluid, generally accurate, and richly annotated. Accompanying chapters discuss the text’s history, its protagonists, its political context, and its ideology. The study will surely benefit both established scholars and, particularly, students, who may now be encouraged to engage with the text systematically. Milburn laudably introduces her readers to the research achievements of traditional and modern Chinese (and to a much lesser extent Japanese) scholars, whose studies of Yanzi Chunqiu have considerably advanced our understanding of the text. All this makes Milburn’s book a welcome contribution to the field." - Yuri Pines, Nankai University, Tianjin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)