01183nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_111150 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 30.75 931 W337/Vol.2 Watson, Burton Records of the grand historian of China translated from the shih chi of ssu-ma Ch'ien Translated from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ie New York Columbia University Press 1961 In this volume deal principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, the period of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's own life-time. The historian is here no longer copying and systematizing the written accounts of ancient China, as he had done in the chapters on pre-Ch'in history, nor relatinf the somewhat romanticized tales of the founding and early days of the Han that had been handed down to him. he is writing about "the pesent emperor". the ruler at whose court he spent his adult life, about the nobles and ministers he knew there, about his freinds, and about his enemies. China History Hiếu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ