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(More customer reviews)Better than Chavannes translation (in French) and also of Burton Watson's partial transaltions. Easy to read and satisfactory notes. Great accomplishment for the various scholars participating in the project. I appreaciate the easy reading since I am not a Chinese scholar except as an old amateur.
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"... an essential source for the study of events in early China, aguide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work ofliterature which may be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of itsnarrative.... This work makes Shi ji and its scholarship accessible to any reader ofEnglish, and it is a model for any work in this field and style." -- Bulletinof the School of Oriental and African Studies, OxfordJournals"Through such work as this, the scholary andliterary community of the West will learn more of the splendour and romance of earlyChina, and may better appreciate the lessons in humanity presented by its greathistorian." -- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and AfricanStudies"... Nienhauser's new translation is scrupulouslyscholarly... the design of this series is nearly flawless... the translation itselfis very precise..." -- Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles,ReviewsThis project will result in the first complete translation(in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one of the mostimportant narratives in traditional China. Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145-c.86 B.C.), whocompiled the work, is known as the Herodotus of China.
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