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Echo of Classics: Selections From Records Of The Historian

Shi Ji Xuan, Selections From Records Of The Historian, written by Sima Qian (the Han dynasty), English translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang. Published by Foreign Languages Press, 2001. Paperback: 497 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.12 x 8.00 x 5.08. ISBN: 7119028936 buy

Born around 145 BCE., Sima Qian was educated in the classics, served his emperor on a variety of missions, and in 107 BCE succeeded his father as Grand Historian of the Han court. Even before rising to this position, Sima Qian had avidly collected historical records during his travels on imperial service. Upon his appointment as Grand Historian, he embarked on the initial project of collecting additional sources, especially from the imperial library, and verifying his facts. Only in 104 BCE was he ready to begin the process of composition, a labor that lasted until 91 BCE. The result was a history monumental in scope. In 130 chapters he traced the story of China from the age of the legendary Five Sage Emperors, who preceded the Xia and Shang dynasties, to his own day. In later years he made small additions and changes and probably continued to revise his masterpiece in minor ways until his death, which happened at an unknown date.

The result was well worth the effort. The Chinese rightly consider the Records of the Grand Historian to be traditional China's greatest piece of historical writing. Sima Qian aimed at telling the whole truth, insofar as he could discover it, and in pursuit of that truth he scoured all available archives. As he composed his work, he included verbatim many of the records he had found, thereby providing modern historians with a wealth of documentary evidence that would otherwise have been lost, for many of the sources Sima Qian quoted, parahrased, and cited exist today only in his history. The book is also a remarkable commentary on human pride, intrigue, strategy and revenge; it also has an eye for detail and anecdote. To cite just one case, a minister is humiliated and driven from his kingdom; and ultimately takes revenge, as prime minister of a neighboring kingdom, by forgiving his persecutor, inviting him to a banquet, and then forcing him eat a meal of hay and water. There is also a detailed description of the tomb of China's First Emperor (the central figure of this book, whose career becomes exemplary of the folly of brutality and suppression of free thought); which has since been made famous by the discovery of the ceramic army of Xian.

Selection From Records of the Historian contains chapters: Xiang Yu - Chen She - Zhang Liang, Marquis of Liu - Prime Minister Chen Ping - Sun Wu and Wu Qi - Lord Shang - Lord Pingyuan and Yu Qing - Lord Xinling - Fan Sui and Cai Ze - Lian Po and Lin Xiangru - Tian Dan - Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin - Zhang Shizhi and Feng Tang - The Marquises of Weiqi and Wuan - Li Guang - The Assassins - The Gallant Citizens - The Jesters

汉英对照经典的回声：史记选

汉英对照经典的回声：史记选
作者：(汉)司马迁著    杨宪益等译
出版社：外文出版社
ISBN：7119028936
页数：497
开本：32开
装帧：平装
出版日期：2001-08-01

【内容提要】
本书是“经典的回声 ECHO OF CLASSICS 丛书之一，是本优秀的英译图书。以汉英对照的形式介绍了司马迁的《史记选》。全书英译则出自国内外译界名家，中文作品及相应的英译版本均堪称经典。所以，本书不单有对外译介的意义，而且对国内英文学习者、爱好者及英译工作者也是极有价值的。

“经典的回声”丛书包括：中国古代寓言选，太平广记选，孙子兵法 孙膑兵法，宋明平话选，楚辞选，关汉卿杂剧选，汉魏六朝小说选，长生殿，杜甫诗选，聊斋志异选，唐代传奇选，中国现代名家短篇小说选。

【目录】
一 项羽本纪    二 陈涉世家    三 留侯世家   四 陈丞相世家    五 孙子吴起列传    六 商君列传    七 平原君虞卿列传
八 魏公子列传    九 范睢蔡泽列传    十 廉颇蔺相如列传    十一 田单列传    十二 淮阴侯列传    十三 张释之冯唐列传
十四 魏其武安侯列传    十五 李将军列传

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