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The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII

By Ssu-Ma Ch'ien

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII Contemporary literature

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII

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This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China. Compiled by Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c. 86 B.C.), it draws upon most major early historical works and was the foremost model for style and genre in Chinese history and literature through the eleventh century A. D., and through the early twentieth century for some genres. Volume 7, The Memoirs of Pre_Han China, translates twenty-eight Lieh-chuan or "memoirs" which depict more than a hundred men and women: sages and scholars, recluses and rhetoricians, persuaders and politicians, commandants and cutthroats of the Ch'in and earlier dynasties. Although the memoirs also begin with what is now often considered myth--an account of the renowned recluses Po Yi and Shu Ch'i--the emphasis in these texts is on the fate of various states and power centers as seen through the biographies of key individuals from the seventh to the third centuries B. C.
Product details
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
806
Release Date:
2021-03-09
Publication Date:
2021-03-01
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0253043263
ISBN13:
9780253043269
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1435 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
51 cm
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