Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History

by Grant Hardy

Book Overview

Sima Qian (c. 100 B.C.E.) was China's first historian--he was known as Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty--and, along with Confucius and the First Emperor of Qin, was one of the creators of imperial China. His Shiji (published for Columbia in a translation by Burton Watson as Records of the Grand Historian) not only became the model for the twenty-six Standard Histories that the historians of each Chinese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231113048
• ISBN13: 9780231113045
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher