The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

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pp. ix-

Like most other volumes of this translation project, a substantial debt is owed to the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation for its continued support. Chapters 109, 110, and 112 were completed several years ago when our German Group was active in Munich supported in part by the Foundation. Chapter 106 and 107...

Introduction: Herodotus and Ssu-ma Ch’ien: A Preliminary Study of Styles and Sources in Their Early Chapters

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pp. xi-xliv

The two great historians of East and West, Herodotus (Hēródotos, ca. 484-ca. 425 B.C.) and Ssu-ma Ch’ien (司馬遷, 145-ca. 86 B.C.), have been compared many times in the past.1 There are of course obvious differences: Herodotus focuses his Histories to the conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians, whereas Ssu-ma’s Grand Scribe’s Records (Shih chi 史記) is an account of all...

On Using This Book

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pp. xlv-xlvii

Most Texts are cited by chapter and page in a particular edition–Shih chi, 62.2185 indicates chüan 卷 62, page 2135 of the Chung-hua edition (see List of Abbreviations)–but references to the Lun yü 論語 (Analects of Confucius) and Meng Tzu 孟子 (Mencius) are according to chapter and verse (學而時習之is thus Lun yü 1.1) and to...

Weights and Measures (Lu Zongli)

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pp. xlix-liii

Throughout the text we have given words indicating weights and measures in their romanized form followed (at the first occurrence) by the Chinese character (e.g., jen 仞). This is in part because there are no standards for each era or each region dealt with in the “basic annals.” Yet most of the values given in the following charts were fairly stable from the Warring States era into the early Han in most states....

List of Abbreviations

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pp. lv-lxiv

Memoir 45

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pp. 1-88

“Pien Ch’üeh” 扁鵲² was a native of Cheng 鄭in Po-hai 勃海 Commandery.³ His cognomen was Ch’in 秦⁴ and his praenomen was Yüeh-jen 越人 (The Native of Yüeh?).5 In his youth he became the head of a hostel.6When the hostel guest, Mister Ch’ang-sang 長桑(Long-lived Mulberry?),7 stopped by, Pien Ch’üeh alone found him remarkable and often treated him with respect...

Memoir 46

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pp. 89-133

[Liu] P’i [劉] 濞¹ (215-154 B.C.), The King of Wu 呉, was the son of Liu Chung 劉仲,² the elder brother of Kao-ti 高帝(The Exalted Emperor, ca. 248-196, r. 206-196).³...

Memoir 47

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pp. 135-171

Tou Ying 竇嬰,¹ the Marquis of Wei-chi 魏其,² was the son of an elder cousin of Hsiao Wen Hou 孝文后(Empress Hsiao Wen, i.e., Tou Yi-fang 竇猗房³). His forefathers had for generations been men of Kuan-chin 觀津.⁴...

Memoir 48

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pp. 173-199

Han An-kuo 韓安國,² the Grandee Secretary, was a native of Ch’eng-an 成安 ³ in Liang 梁.⁴ Later he moved to Sui-yang 睢陽.⁵ He once received [the teachings of] Han Tzu 韓子⁶ and the miscellaneous Masters at the establishment of Master T’ien 田生⁷ of Tsou 騶. ⁸ [He] served King Hsiao 孝of...

Memoir 49

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pp. 201-235

General Li Kuang 李廣was a native of Ch’eng-chi 成紀 [County] in Lung-hsi 隴西[Commandery].¹ [One of] his ancestors was called Li Hsin 李信.² In Ch’in times, he had been a commander and was the one who had pursued and caught Tan 丹, the Heir of Yen 燕.³ Formerly from Huai-li,⁴ he...

Memoir 50

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pp. 237-310

As for the Hsiung-nu,² their progenitor³ was a descendant of the lineage of the rulers of Hsia 夏, called Ch’un-wei 淳維.⁴ During the times of T’ang 唐and Yü 虞⁵ and before, there were the Mountain Jung 戎, the Hsien-yün 獫狁, and the Hun-yü 葷粥⁶ living in the unruly regions of the North⁷ and...

Memoir 51

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pp. 311-361

As for the General-in-Chief Wei Ch’ing 衛青,² he was a native of P’ing-yang 平陽.³ His father Cheng Chi 鄭季⁴ was made an official and served⁵ in the household of the Marquis of P’ing-yang. ⁶ He had relations with a maidservant⁷ of the Marquis, Dame Wei...

Memoir 52

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pp. 363-397

Chancellor Kung-sun Hung 公孫弘(ca. 200-121 B.C.)¹ was a native of Hsüeh 薛County in the Kingdom of Tzu-ch’uan 菑川 in Ch’i 齊. ² His agnomen was Chi 季. When he was young, he was Judiciary Clerk of Hsüeh,...

Frequently Mentioned Commentators

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pp. 399-400

Biographical Sketches of Shih chi Scholars 401(Ho Tz’u-chün and Sung Yün-pin)

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pp. 401-407

Index

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pp. 409-425