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Ssu-ma Ch'ien,William H. Nienhauser, Jr.
This ninth volume includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 B.C.).
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Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and biography based on early written and oral sources, many no longer extant, the narratives make for compelling reading, as dramatic and readable as any in…
Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.
Part of the complete translation of the Shih chi ( The Grand Scribe’s Records ), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. This volume 7 translates twenty-eight Lieh-chuan…
But the individual motifs that echo other sections of the Grand Scribe’s Records–unrecognized heroes, both loyal and disloyal retainers, broken friendships, and faithless lovers–appear in these pages.
The latest volume in the annotated translation of the shi chih, one of the most important historical works of Ancient China
The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume VI, contains annotated translations of the hereditary houses for the Ch'in and Han dynasties. Such houses were an invention of Ssu-ma Ch'ien and in early…
This volume presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien’s history, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu’s wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ch'ien’s postface containing a…
An essential source for the study of events in early China, a guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work of literature which may…
