The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII
The Memoirs of Pre-Han China
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The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII
The Memoirs of Pre-Han China
About This Book
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 mythâan account of the renowned recluses Po Yi and Shu Ch'iâthe 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Grand Scribeâs Records REVISED VOLUME VII The Memoirs of Pre-Han China
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Note on the Newly Revised Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- On Using This Book
- A Note on Chronology
- Warring States Reign Periods
- Weights and Measures
- List of Abbreviations
- Po Yi, Memoir 1
- Kuan Chung and Yan Ying, Memoir 2
- Lao-tzu and Han Fei, Memoir 3
- Marshall Jang-chĂź, Memoir 4
- Sun-tzu and Wu-châi, Memoir 5
- Wu Tzu HsĂź, Memoir 6
- Confuciusâ Disciples, Memoir 7
- The Lord of Shang, Memoir 8
- Su Châin, Memoir, 9
- Chang Yi, Memoir 10
- Shu-lu Tzu and Kan Mao, Memoir 11
- The Marquis of Jang, Memoir 12
- Pai Châi and Wang Chien, Memoir 13
- Mencius and Excellency HsĂźn, Memoir 14
- The Lord of Meng-châang, Memoir 15
- The Lord of Pâing-yĂźan and Excellency YĂź, Memoir 16
- The Noble Scion of Wei, Memoir 17
- The Lord of Châun-shen, Memoir 18
- Fan Sui and Tsâai Tse, Memoir 19
- YĂźeh Yi, Memoir 20
- Lien Pâo and Lin Hsiang-ju, Memoir 21
- Tâien Tan, Memoir 22
- Lu Chung Lien and Tsou Yang, Memoir 23
- ChâĂź YĂźan and Scholar Chia, Memoir 24
- LĂź Pu-wei, Memoir 25
- The Assassin-Retainers, Memoir 26
- Li Su, Memoir 27
- Meng Tâien, Memoir 28
- Bibliography
- Index