Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI: The Memoirs of Han China, Part IV

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ISBN: 9780253046109
Author : Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Published: 2019
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Number of pages: 360
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 235×156

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The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu's wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ssu-ma Ch'ien's postface containing a history of his family and himself.

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