Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VIII

The Memoirs of Han China, Part I

AvSsu-ma Ch'ien,William Nienhauser, Jr.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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The 16 chapters translated herein continue the biographies of individuals in pre-Han China presented in volume seven of The Grand Scribe's Records. The reader is introduced to the major supporters and rivals of the founders of the Han Dynasty: the generals, advisors, strategists, and ministers who helped to shape the foundations of the first sustained empire in Chinese history. Although these men were often of common stock, they influenced the development of many aspects of the Han culture, a culture which in turn served as a model for subsequent eras. Based on oral and written accounts as well as on administrative records, these biographies range stylistically from anecdotal tales to repetitious reports of achievements in battle. The failure of the first five Han emperors to trust the loyalty of their subordinates is a leitmotif in many of these chapters. 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—also appear in these pages.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt:844 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253340283
Översättare:Meghan Cai, Stephen Durrant, Reinhard Emmerich, Hans van Ess, Qian Liu, Christian Meyer, Jr. William Nienhauser, Marc Nürnberger, Michael Schimmelpfennig, Judith Suwald, Wang Jing, Zhao Hua

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Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145–ca. 86 BC), China's greatest historian and an important official in the Han dynasty, compiled the history of his culture from its beginnings through the end of the 2nd century BCE. William H. Nienhauser, Jr., is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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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.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionOn Using This BookWeights and MeasuresList of AbbreviationsMemoir 29 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)Memoir 30 (Stephen Durrant, translator)Memoir 31 (Meghan Cai and Qian Liu, translators)Memoir 32 (Wang Jing, translator)Memoir 33 (Reinhard Emmerich, translator)Memoir 34 (Zhao Hua, translator)Memoir 35 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)Memoir 36 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)Memoir 37 (Hans van Ess, translator)Memoir 38 (Michael Schimmelpfennig, translator)Memoir 39 (Christian Meyer, translator)Memoir 40 (Judith Suwald, translator)Memoir 41 (Marc Nurnberger, translator)Memoir 42 (Hans van Ess, translator)Memoir 43 (Wang Jing, translator)Memoir 44 (Hans van Ess, translator)Frequently Mentioned CommentatorsBiographical Sketches of Shih chi Commentators (Erich Haenisch and Liu Po-chuang)ErratumSelected Recent Studies of the Shih chiIndex