Records of the Grand Historian
- Authors
- Watson, Burton, Sima, Qian
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Tags
- history , classics
- ISBN
- 9780231521079
- Date
- 1993-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.37 MB
- Lang
- en
This volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known. In Nagano Hozan's (1783-1837) words, "He makes us see in our minds the character of the men of the time, and this is why he is a great historian.: