Records of the Grand Historian

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• France_is_bacon · Sep 6, 2021 · Recommends

  …Confucius The Spring and Autumn Annals, edited by Confucius The Analects, by Confucius Mencius, by Mencius The Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu Chuang Tzu, by Chuang Tzu The Songs of the South, by Qu Yuan Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian 二、Mid Imperial and High Imperial (220AD-1279AD): The Poetry of Tao Yuanming (also known as Tao Qian or T’ao Ch’ien) The Poetry of Wang Wei The Poetry of Li Bai (a.k.a. Li Po) The Poetry…

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• muddyrivers · Nov 25, 2016 · Recommends

  …historians that followed him. Not many have his talents and his balls. Sima Qian's work is also a classic in literature. For anyone who studies ancient Chinese literature, he must study is work, the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji).

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• gavmor · May 25, 2022 · Mentions

  The indie wuxia TTRPG "Hearts of Wulin"[0] has an expansion appendix, including: - Han Feizi by Han Fei - Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji) by Sima Qian - The Book of Han - The Book of Later Han - Nie Yinniang - The Kunlun Slave - Thirteenth Madam Jing - Red String - The Bearded Warrior - Romance of the Three Kingdoms by…

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• rawgabbit · Mar 16, 2023 · Mentions

  The phrase comes from Sima Qian's "The Records of the Grand Historian" written in 94BCE. Zhao Gao was a eunuch and hid the first Emperor's death and schemed to have the rightful heir killed. Zhao installed a puppet and tested everyone's loyalty by declaring a stag a horse…

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• panglott · Nov 22, 2016 · Mentions

  …in the US in affordable, accessible editions. Part of this is the longer history of Classical studies, so contemporary scholars have to compete with the public domain. But the main English edition of "Records of the Grand Historian" is Burton Watson's translation, which heavily excerpts the material to focus on the Qin dynasty, rather than including some of the more mythological information about the Zhou.

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• Leary · Feb 18, 2024 · Mentions

  …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Rites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_and_Autumn_Annals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zhuan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian

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• hnfong · Feb 19, 2024 · Mentions

  …Chinese to English? (Just knowing Mandarin isn't quite enough) But then, it's really hard to translate Classical Chinese to English. Even the longer important texts haven't been fully translated, eg. 史記 ("Records of the Grand Historian", which has kind of a similar standing as the Iliad in the West) is only partially translated AFAICT. Written Chinese is admittedly quite hard to learn given that you have to recognize the characters…

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• dwohnitmok · Aug 14, 2019 · Mentions

  …translations of the Bible written in each style. This carries over to the ambiguity in the sentences. Different Classical Chinese works can have very different amounts of ambiguity, even in the same genre. The Records of the Grand Historian, a Western Han dynasty historical record is written in a fairly plain style. In contrast, the Book of Han, an Eastern Han dynasty historical record is at times infamously impenetrable (even to ancient…

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