Records of the Grand Historian (Qin Dynasty) which ran from the arch-conservative

which ran from the arch-conservative to the revolutionary

written like fiction but reflecting what we see on the screen

Studies of translation from literary Chinese into English constitute the majority of the contributions

As a young woman in her mid-twenties

Wang Guowei’s 王國維 landmark essay ‘Critique of Dream of the Red Chamber’ 《紅樓夢》評論

Records of the Grand Historian (Qin Dynasty) which ran from the arch-conservativeBy Sima Qian Translated by Burton Watson 1993 Co published with Columbia University Press xviii + 221 pages ISBN 0231 08168 5 Sima Qian (145?90? BC) is the first major Chinese historian. His Shi ji, or Records of the Grand Historian, records the history of China and much of the adjacent world from the remote past to his own time. These three volumes contain a new translation of the history of the Qin dynasty (221206 BC) and a revised version of the