[China]. Szuma Chien (Sima Qian).

Selections from the Records of the Historian. Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang.

Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1979, 1st ed., 461,(1) pag., hardcover with dustjacket (very good copy). = Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-ca. 90 B.C.), was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years beginning from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and the formation of the first Chinese polity to the reigning sovereign of Sima Qian's time, Emperor Wu of Han. As the first universal history of the world as it was known to the ancient Chinese, the Records of the Grand Historian served as a model for official history-writing for subsequent Chinese dynasties and the Chinese cultural sphere (Korea, Vietnam, Japan) up until the 20th century.

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Book number: #7750

Keywords: China geschiedenis

Qian, Sima; Pimpaneau, Jacques

Vies de Chinois illustres. Traduit du chinois et présenté par Jacques Pimpaneau.

Paris, Philippe Picquier, 2002, broché, 12mo, 167 pp., biographie; bon état / good condition (black wrapper glued on original cover; clean, no annotations). . ISBN: 9782877306119.

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Book number: 27697

Catalogue: Chinese language and culture

Keywords: biographie, Chinois

Sima Qian or Se-ma Ts'ien, Chavannes, Édouard (ed.).

Les mémoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien [Sima Qian]. Traduits et annotés par Édouard Chavannes. [Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian]. Complete set in first French translation in 6 volumes.

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1895-1905, first French edition, 5 parts in 6 vols., contemporary uniform halfgoatskin extra (stained black) with raised bands and giltlettering on spine. = Very rare complete set of the first edition of the works' first ever translation into a western language, "a landmark" and "the standard by which all subsequent renditions (...) must be measured" (W. Nienhauser in Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English). Sima's Shiji [Records of the Grand Historian] is respected as a model of biographical literature with high literary value and still stands as a textbook for the study of classical Chinese. Sima's works were influential to Chinese writing, serving as ideal models for various types of prose within the neo-classical ("renaissance" ??) movement of the Tang-Song period. The great use of characterisation and plotting also influenced fiction writing, including the classical short stories of the middle and late medieval period (Tang-Ming) as well as the vernacular novel of the late imperial period. Sima had immense influence on historiography not only in China, but also in Japan and Korea. For centuries afterwards, the Shiji was regarded as the greatest history book written in Asia. Sima is little known in the English-speaking world as a full translation of the Shiji has never been attempted. Coverboards and first and final leaves some worming. Otherwise a neat set.

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Sima Qian

RECORDS OF THE GREAT HISTORIAN - Han Dynasty II (revised edition).

Columbia University Press, 1993 / NumbervLXV of the Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies ; Conditie: In zeer goede staat. Ongelezen. Grote paperback. 505 pp.

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