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The letter to Ren An & Sima Qian's legacy / Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans Van Ess.

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"'Surely, a man has but one death. That death may be as heavy as Mount Tai or as light as a goose feather. It is how he uses that death that makes all the difference!' So wrote Sima Qian (first century BCE), author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), the first comprehensive history of...

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Main Authors: Durrant, Stephen W., 1944- (Author), Li, Wai-yee (Author), Nylan, Michael (Author), Ess, Hans van (Author)
Other title:Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's legacy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Correspondence.
Historians > China > Correspondence.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Criticism and interpretation.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Authorship.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Influence.
Chinese letters > History and criticism.
Friendship > China > History > To 1500 > Sources.
China > History > Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
China > Politics and government > 221 B.C.-220 A.D. > Sources.
China > Intellectual life > 221 B.C.-960 A.D. > Sources.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C.
Authorship.
Chinese letters.
Friendship.
Han Dynasty (China)
Historians.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Politics and government.
China.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Records and correspondence.
Sources.

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Call Number: DS734.9.S8 D875 2016
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