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This ninth volume includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 B.C.).

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This ninth volume includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 B.C.).

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...

With Part I of the two-part fifth volume of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), we enter the world of the shih chia or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history of China's first states, from their establishment in the 11th century B.C. until their incorporation in the first empire under the Ch'in in 221 B.C. Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and biography based on early written and oral sources, many no lon...

The contents include: Po Yi, Memoir 1, Kuan Yi-wu and Yen Ying, Memoir 2, Lao Tzu and Han Fei, Memoir 3, Marshal Jang-chu, Memoir 4, Sun Tzu and Wu Ch'i, Memoir 5, Wu Tzu Hsu, Memoir 6, Confucius's Disciples, Memoir 7, The Lord of Shang, Memoir 8, Su Ch'in, Memoir 9, Chang Yi, Memoir 10, Shu-li Tzu and Kan Mao, Memoir 11, The Marquis of Jang, Memoir 12, Pai Ch'i and Wang Chien, Memoir 13, Meng Tzu and Excellency Hsun, Memoir 14, The Lord of Me...

Ssu-ma Ch¿ien (145¿ca. 86 BC) served for several decades as a high official at the court of the Han Emperor Wu around the year 100 BC. As China¿s greatest historian, he overcame political and personal conflicts to complete this huge narrative account of ancient China, from its beginnings through the end of the second century BC.William H. Nienhauser, Jr., is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin-...