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THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOL. 2 The Basic Annals of Han China
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THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOL. 2 The Basic Annals of Han China Hardcover - 2002

by Ch'ien, Ssu-Ma & Scott W. Galer translated by Weiguo Cao

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Indiana University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0253340225 . Clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pp .
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  • Title THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOL. 2 The Basic Annals of Han China
  • Author Ch'ien, Ssu-Ma & Scott W. Galer translated by Weiguo Cao
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition annotated editio
  • Condition Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 54572
  • ISBN 9780253340221 / 0253340225
  • Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.64 x 6.6 x 1.16 in (24.49 x 16.76 x 2.95 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects China - History - To 221 B.C, China - History - Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94018408
  • Dewey Decimal Code 931

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Kao-tsu (The Exalted Ancestor, ca. 248-196 B.C.; r. 206-196), a native of Chung-yang Hamlet in Feng Township in P'ei , had the cognomen Liu and the agnomen Chi.

About the author

Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-ca. 86 B.C.), China's greatest historian and an important official in the Han dynasty, compiled the history of his culture from its beginnings through the end of the second century B.C.


William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor and co-translator, is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1979 he helped found the journal Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) and has edited it since. He has published a number of articles and books on traditional Chinese literature, including The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (two volumes, Indiana University Press, 1985; 1998)

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