Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII

The Memoirs of Pre-Han China

AvSsu-ma Ch'ien,William H. Nienhauser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-09
Mått:156 x 235 x 51 mm
Vikt:1 361 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:806
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253043269

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Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145–ca. 86 BC) served for several decades as a high official at the court of the Han Emperor Wu around the year 100 BC. As China's greatest historian, he overcame political and personal conflicts to complete this huge narrative account of ancient China, from its beginnings through the end of the second century BC. William H. Nienhauser, Jr., is Halls-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (two volumes, Indiana University Press, 1985, 1998), (as translator) Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical by André Lévy (Indiana University Press, 2000), and (as editor and translator) the previous volumes of The Grand Scribe's Records. He is a founding editor of the journal Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR).

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"[T]he Grand Scribe's Records volume 8 is a remarkable achievement and an interesting experiment in combining something resembling a traditional Chinese commentarial style with a Western scholarly context. . . . And, as with previous volumes, the intrepid beginner or the careful specialist will find volume 8 to be ahelpful aid to research on the Shiji."—China Review International"These volumes are most welcome. . . . The English translation has been done meticulously, with full scholarly apparatus. . . . These volumes are essential library additions."—Choice

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DedicationAcknowledgementsIntroductionOn Using This BookA Note on ChronologyWeights and MeasuresList of AbbreviationsPo Yi, MemoirKuan Yi-wu and Yen Ying, MemoirLao Tzu and Han Fei, MemoirMarshal Jang-chu, MemoirSun Tzu and Wu Ch'i, MemoirWu Tzu Hsu, MemoirConfiucius's Disciples, MemoirThe Lord of Shang, MemoirSu Ch'in, MemoirChang Yi, MemoirShu-li Tzu and Kan Mao, MemoirThe Marquis of Jang, MemoirPai Ch'i and Wang Chien, MemoirMeng Tzu and Excellency Hsun, MemoirThe Lord of Meng-ch'ang, MemoirThe Lord of P'ing-yuan and Excellency Yu, MemoirThe Noble Scion of Wei, MemoirThe Lord of Ch'un-shen, MemoirFan Sui and Ts'ai Tse, MemoirYueh Yi, MemoirLien P'o and Lin Hsiang-ju, MemoirT'ien Tan, MemoirLu Chung Lien and Tsou Yang, MemoirCh'u Yuan and Scholar Chia, MemoirLu Pu-wei, MemoirThe Assassin-Retainers, MemoirLi Ssu, MemoirMeng T'ien, MemoirBibliographyIndexMaps