Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VIII

Ssu-ma Ch'ien (145–ca. 86 BC), China's greatest historian and an important official in the Han dynasty, compiled the history of his culture from its beginnings through the end of the 2nd century BCE. William H. Nienhauser, Jr., is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionOn Using This BookWeights and MeasuresList of AbbreviationsMemoir 29 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr. , translator)Memoir 30 (Stephen Durrant, translator)Memoir 31 (Meghan Cai and Qian Liu, translators)Memoir 32 (Wang Jing, translator)Memoir 33 (Reinhard Emmerich, translator)Memoir 34 (Zhao Hua, translator)Memoir 35 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)Memoir 36 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)Memoir 37 (Hans van Ess, translator)Memoir 38 (Michael Schimmelpfennig, translator)Memoir 39 (Christian Meyer, translator)Memoir 40 (Judith Suwald, translator)Memoir 41 (Marc Nurnberger, translator)Memoir 42 (Hans van Ess, translator)Memoir 43 (Wang Jing, translator)Memoir 44 (Hans van Ess, translator)Frequently Mentioned CommentatorsBiographical Sketches of Shih chi Commentators (Erich Haenisch and Liu Po-chuang)ErratumSelected Recent Studies of the Shih chiIndex

"[T]he Grand Scribe's Records volume 8 is a remarkable achievement and an interesting experiment in combining something resembling a traditional Chinese commentarial style with a Western scholarly context. . . . And, as with previous volumes, the intrepid beginner or the careful specialist will find volume 8 to be ahelpful aid to research on the Shiji."—China Review International"These volumes are most welcome. . . . The English translation has been done meticulously, with full scholarly apparatus. . . . These volumes are essential library additions."—Choice"[T]he Grand Scribe's Records volume 8 is a remarkable achievement and an interesting experiment in combining something resembling a traditional Chinese commentarial style with a Western scholarly context. . . . And, as with previous volumes, the intrepid beginner or the careful specialist will find volume 8 to be a helpful aid to research on the Shiji."—China Review International