Böcker av Ssu-ma Ch'ien

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 or 'memoirs' which depict more than a hundred men and women: sages and scholars, recluses and rhetoricians, persuaders and politicians, and more.

An essential source for early Chinese history

The latest volume in the annotated translation of the shi chih, one of the most important historical works of Ancient China

The latest volume in the annotated translation of the shi chih, one of the most important historical works of Ancient China

A new volume in a new annotated translation of The Grand Scribe's Records, one of the most important histories of Ancient China

"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 be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of its narrative. ... This work makes Shi ji and its scholarship accessible to any reader of English, and it is a model for any work in this field and style." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"Through such work as this, the scholarly and literary community of the West will learn more of the splendour and romance of early China, and may better appreciate the lessons in humanity presented by its great historian." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"Nienhauser's new translation is scrupulously scholarly... the design of this series is nearly flawless... the translation itself is very precise..." --Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, ReviewsThis project will result in 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. Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c.86 B.C.), who compiled the work, is known as the Herodotus of China.