The Threshold: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Early Medieval China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)What happens when historiographythe way historical events are committed to writingshapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly life writing, its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds? The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores these questions through the lens of the History of Liu Song, a dynastic history