This is the first complete English translation of Lushi chunqiu, compiled in 239 B.C. An exceptionally rich and comprehensive compendium, The Annals recounts in engaging, straightforward, and readable prose the great variety of beliefs and customs of the time in an attempt to encompass the world's knowledge in one encyclopedia. "This book gives us the first complete English translation of the Lushi chunqiu. . . . Knoblock and Riegel aim for a book "in convenient form that will serve the needs of the general reader while providing the scholar with the information necessary to understand the decisions we have made in translating the text." They have succeeded admirably. . . . Recommended for all collections on early China."