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基本説明
Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a first source of historical information about China.
Full Description
Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.
Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first comprehensive history of China and has exerted an immense influence both upon our understanding of the Chinese past and also upon the style and structure of subsequent Chinese historiography. In addition to his contribution as a historian, Sima Qian is a highly significant literary figure whose writings are among the most elegant and powerful from the ancient world.
Durrant's study approaches Sima Qian's work from a literary perspective and demonstrates the relationship between Sima's narrative of the past and his narrative of his own life. That life was a fascinating and complex one. Enjoined by his father to complete a comprehensive history of China, Sima Qian subsequently offended the great Emperor Wu and was sentenced to castration. Rather than take the "noble path" of suicide, he suffered this traumatic punishment and lived on to fulfill his father's injunction-but not without emotional scars, scars that influenced his portrayal of the Chinese past. In fact, the great Han historian's account of the Chinese past, this study argues, is as much his story as it is history.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Frustration of the Second Confucius
2. Sima Qian's Confucius
3. Sima Qian, the Six Arts, and Spring and Autumn Annals
4. Dying Fathers and Living Memories
5. (Wo)men with(out) Names
6. Ideologue versus Narrator
Epilogue
Appendix: Chronology of Sima Qian's Life
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
