Ssu-ma, Chien, ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C. Y <br/><br/>
Records of the historian :  chapters from the Shih chi 
Translated by Burton Watson. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  1969. 
 - 356 p. ;  20 cm. 
 - UNESCO collection of representative works. Chinese series .
<br/><br/> 'Prepared for the Columbia College program of translations from the Oriental classics.'  'On the whole...the translator has followed the text of the Shih chi as it appears in the edition entitled Shiki kaichu kosho (Tokyo, 1934), edited and with a commentary in Chinese by Takikawa Kametaro.'  TRUNCATED 
<br/><br/>The biography of Po Yi and Shu Ch'i (Shih chi 61)--The biography of Wu Tzu-hsu (Shih chi 66)--The biography of T'ien Tan (Shih chi 82)--The biography of Lu Pu-wei (Shih chi 85)--The biographies of the Assassian--Retainers (Shih chi 86)--The Basic annals of Hsiang Yu (Shih chi 7)--The basic annals of Emperor Kao-tsu (Shih chi 8)--Reflections on the rise of Emperor Kao-tsu (Shih chi 16, excerpt)--The hereditary house of Prime Minister Hsiao (Shih chi 53)--The hereditary house of the Marquis of Liu (Chang Liang) (Shih chi 55)--The biography of Huai-yin (Han Hsin) (Shih chi 92)--The biographies of Li I-ch 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0231033214 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--History--Shang dynasty, 1766--1122 B.C.<br/>China--History--Chou dynasty, 1122--221 B.C.<br/>China--History--Chin dynasty, 221--207 B.C Y.<br/>China--History--Han dynasty, 202 B.C.--220 A.D.