The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume X

Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III

Ssu-Ma Ch'ien (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

2020
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05052-6 (ISBN)

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In The Grand Scribe's Records: Volume X, readers can follow Ssu-ma Qian's depiction of the later years of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 140–87 BC). The volume begins with four chapters describing the Han's attempts to subdue states north, east, south and west of the empire. The subsequent long biography of Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju (179–117) presents one of the era's major literary figures who came to oppose the Emperor's expensive military campaigns against these states. It is followed by an equally extended portrayal of Liu An (d. 122), King of Huai-nan, who was seen as an internal threat and forced to commit suicide. The final chapters recount narratives of the ideal officials (all predating the Han) and the Confucians the Emperor championed.

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-Madison. His books include The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (two volumes, Indiana University Press, 1985, 1998), (as translator) Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical by André Lévy (Indiana University Press, 2000), and (as editor and translator) the previous six volumes of The Grand Scribe's Records. He is a founding editor of the journal Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR).

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Übersetzer	Hans van Ess, Chiu Ming Chan, Thomas D. Noel
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-05052-9 / 0253050529
ISBN-13	978-0-253-05052-6 / 9780253050526
Zustand	Neuware