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Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History. (Reviews). (book...
Magazine article from: Biography Berkowitz, Alan June 22, 2001 700+ words ...Hardy. Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History. New York...Readers of Biography surely know Sima Qian (ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.E...Confucius and the First Emperor of Qin, Sima Qian was one of the creators of Imperial... |
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Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Kroll, Paul W. April 1, 1997 700+ words ...them. Stephen Durrant's book on Sima Qian is one of the latter. Although this...Western-language translations from Sima Qian's (145-86? B.C.) magnificent...philology, illumines key sections of Sima Qian's writings as points of inescapable... |
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The "biography of Sima Xiangru" and the question of the Fu in Sima Qian's Shiji.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Kern, Martin April 1, 2003 700+ words ...authenticity of certain chapters of Sima Qian's (ca. 145--ca. 86 B.C...noted, beginning with the remark in Sima Qian's Hanshu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...Obviously, this note cannot come from Sima Qian. (5) Finally, the word fu in... |
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For want of a hand: a note on the "Hereditary House of Jin" and Sima Qian's...
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Nienhauser, William H. July 1, 2007 700+ words ...Annals]) and enjoined his son, Sima Qian [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII...NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII])--Sima Qian reveals both thorough knowledge of...been less explored in English is how Sima Qian used the Spring and Autumn and its... |
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Herodotus and Sima Qian: History and the Anthropological Turn in Ancient Greece...
Magazine article from: Journal of World History Stuurman, Siep March 1, 2008 700+ words ...comparative investigation of Herodotus and Sima Qian with a focus on their ethnographies...foreign cultures. Herodotus and Sima Qian combined an incipient cultural relativism...written ca. 100-90 B.C.E.) of Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Ch'ien) in the former... |
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Sima Qian; William H. Nienhauser Jr., editor; Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook,...
Magazine article from: China Review International Klein, Esther September 22, 2007 700+ words Sima Qian; William H. Nienhauser Jr., editor; Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook...translation of the Shiji, the massive historical text compiled primarily by Sima Qian (145-ca. 86 B.C.). The present volume covers chapters 31-40... |
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Qian Zhongshu. Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters. (book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Asian and African Studies YE, YANG May 1, 2001 700+ words Qian Zhongshu, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas...represents the ne plus ultra achievement of Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), widely acclaimed...The Book of Songs, Zuo's Commentary, Sima Qian's Historical Records, Laozi, Liezi, and... |
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Man of record remembered
Newspaper article from: China Daily June 15, 2005 700+ words ...held belief in a shared ancestor, Sima Qian (145-87 BC), the archivist who...Emperor to his day. Until today, Sima Qian's 130-chapter work continues...seeking to pay their respects to Sima Qian and mull over his enormous legacy... |
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Michael J. Puett. The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation...
Magazine article from: China Review International Dye, John Lindsay March 22, 2003 700+ words ...culminating with the written history of Sima Qian. This work began as a doctoral dissertation...essentially conveys Puett's thesis about Sima Qian's own view of statecraft. According to Puett, Sima Qian considered it a kind of necessary... |
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Martin Kern. The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in...
Magazine article from: China Review International Davidson, Steven C. September 22, 2002 700+ words ...of the Han (largely influenced by Sima Qian) and post-Han categories and polemic...empire between 219 and 210 B.C.E. Sima Qian preserved the text of six of the...informed the erudites' efforts. Sima Qian's presentation of the stele inscriptions... |
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Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...cultures of the fifth millennium b.c.e. In the words of Sima Qian (fl. 100 b.c.e.), "Ever since the people have...white tiger with autumn, the dark turtle with winter. As Sima Qian would later say: "The 28 lunar lodges govern the 12... |
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Biography
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...the earliest biographies appeared in the second century b.c.e. in China. The Shih-chih (Historical records) by Sima Qian (formerly transliterated as Ssu-ma Ch'ien, c. 145 – c. 85 b.c.e.) included short character sketches... |
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Chinese Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...Yellow) River basin and the middle Yangzi region. The voluminous history, Shi Ji ("Historical Records"), by Sima Qian (b. 145 B.C.) and recent archeological finds support the validity of the assumption. For example, the neolithic... |
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historiography
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...in the classical age of ancient Greece HERODOTUS and THUCYDIDES wrote narrative histories of their own times. In China SIMA QIAN ( c. 145– c. 85 BC) is known as the “Father of Chinese History”. The Roman historians... |
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