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Records of the Historian: Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu-Ma Ch’Ien

✍ Scribed by Burton Watson

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
364
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Presents a translation of a major portion of key chapters of the Records of the Historian to give a sense of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's work as a whole.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Contents
Introduction
Translator’s Note on the Text
Shih chi 61: The Biography of Po Yi and Shu Ch’i
Shih chi 66: Τ he Biography of Wu Tzu-hsü
Shih chi 82: The Biography of T’ien Tan
Shih chi 85: The Biography of Lü Pu-wei
Shih chi 86: The Biographies of the Assassin-Retainers
Shih chi 7: The Basic Annals of Hsiang Yü
Shih chi 8: The Basic Annals of Emperor Kao-tsu
Shih chi 16 (excerpt): Reflections on the Rise of Emperor Kao-tsu
Shih chi 53: The Hereditary House of Prime Minister Hsiao
Shih chi 55: The Hereditary House of the Marquis of Liu (Chang Liang)
Shih chi 92: The Biography of the Marquis of Huai-yin (Han Ηsin)
Shih chi 97: The Biographies of Li I-chi and Lu Chia
Shih chi 99: The Biographies of Liu Ching and Shu-sun T’ung
Shih chi 29: The Treatise on the Yellow River and Canals
Shih chi 107: The Biographies of the Marquises of Wei-ch’i and Wu-an
Shih chi 109: The Biography of General Li Kuang
Shih chi 123: The Account of Ta-yüan
Shih chi 122: The Biographies of the Harsh Officials
Shih chi 120: The Biographies of the Money-makers

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