Records of the Grand Historian: Qin dynasty, Volume 1

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Columbia University Press, 1993 - 243 pages
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
 

Contents

The Basic Annals of Qin
1
The Basic Annals of The First Emperor of the Qin
35
Reflections on the Rise of the Qin
85
The Biography of Lord Shang
89
The Biographies Of Shuli Zi and Gan Mou
101
The Biography of the Marquis of Rang
113
The Biographies of Bai Qi and Wang Jian
121
The Biographies of Fan Ju and Cai Ze
131
The Biographies of The Assassinretainers Excerpt
167
The Biography of Li Si
179
The Biography of Meng Tian
207
The Biographies of Wits and Humorists Excerpt
215
Shi ji 48 The Hereditary House of Chen She
217
Sima Qians Letter to Ren An
227
Index
239
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The Biography of Lu Buwei
159

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Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia.

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