Records of the Grand Historian : Han Dynasty, Volume 1

Qian Sima; Burton Watson
Columbia University Press
9780231081658
0-231-08165-0

Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own.

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time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.