The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI (eBook)

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The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV

Autor: Ssu-ma Ch'ien

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ISBN: 978-0-253-04845-5

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Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty.The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu's wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ssu-ma Ch'ien's postface containing a history of his family and himself.Praise for the series: ';[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology.' China Review International ';The English translation has been done meticulously.' Choice

Autor	Ch'ien, Ssu-ma / Nienhauser, Jr., William (Hrsg.)
Verlag	Indiana University Press
Einband	PDF
Erscheinungsjahr	2019
Seitenangabe	360 S.
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
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Über den Autor Ssu-ma Ch'ien

Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-ca. 86 BC) was an official at the court of the Han Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 BC), who was involved in the compilation of a mammoth historical project that resulted in this history, which came to be known as the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records). William H. Nienhauser, Jr., is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and editor of six previous volumes of The Grand Scribe's Records. Masha Kobzeva is Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has contributed to several of the volumes of The Grand Scribe's Records, and is managing editor of Chinese Literature: Essays Articles and Reviews (CLEAR).