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Historical Records

Historical Records

Qian Sima

The Historical Records or Shiji is a vast history of the Chinese world from its beginnings up to the late second century BC. Its author, the Grand Historiographer Sima Qian (c. 145-86 BC), is the most famous Chinese historian and a great ...
Les Mémoires Historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien

Les Mémoires Historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien

Qian Sima

Qian Sima Edouard Chavannes, Max Kaltenmark. Nous avons multiplié à dessein ces textes afin de bien établir que le titre de t'ai che signifie grand astrologue et non pas grand annaliste, comme on l'a cru jusqu'ici. Cependant il est certain ...
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng

Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng

Qian Sima

反聽之謂聰。內親之謂明。自勝之謂彊。 0 , 1 , 5 纖 1 ^ ^、聞命。^ 5 |、 5 ^本、商君曰 。子不說吾治秦與。趙良名而有之曰貪名。僕聽君之義、則恐僕貪位貪名也。故不敢僕 不肯。故不敢受命。僕聞之。曰。非其位而居之曰貪位。非其不義而富且食、於我如浮|  ...
Companion to Historiography

Companion to Historiography

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Considerable parts ofhis workhave beentranslated into English,notably by Watson; butfora flavour ofit see theWorld's Classics selection, Sima Qian [ SsumaCh'ien in Pinyin romanization], Historical Records, tr.R.Dawson (Oxford, 1994).For an ...
The Grand Scribe's Records: The memoirs of pre-Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records: The memoirs of pre-Han China

Qian Sima

This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe’s Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China.
Records of the Grand Historian: Han dynasty

Records of the Grand Historian: Han dynasty

Qian Sima

His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
The Grand Scribe's Records: pt. 2. The memoirs of Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records: pt. 2. The memoirs of Han China

Qian Sima

... he established and invested the feudal lords, when King Yu 幽[Liu Yu 劉友] and King Tao-hui 悼惠[Liu Fei 劉肥] were cut off without descendants,152 Hsiao Wen Huang-ti 孝文皇帝(The Filial and Cultured August Emperor) took pity on them ...
Qian Zhongshu shou gao ji: Wai wen bi ji

Qian Zhongshu shou gao ji: Wai wen bi ji

Zhongshu Qian

Ben ji shou lu Qian Zhongshu 1938-1949 nian suo zuo de bi ji, nei rong bi yi qian geng jia feng fu, chu ying yu wen xue wai, hai you yong fa wen he de wen zhai lu de wen xue yuan zhu.
Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Zhongshu Qian

Christopher Rea situates these works within China's wartime politics and Qian's literary vision, highlighting significant changes between different editions that provide unprecedented insight into the author's creative process.
The Grand Scribe's Records: The basic annals of Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records: The basic annals of Han China

Qian Sima

Ssu-maCh'ien yuShih chi hsin-t'un H]JflJfi^J£J|ESfS1. ... Ch'e Hsing-chien ^-frl>S. "Ts'ung Ssu-ma Ch'ien Shih chi 'T'ai-shih-kung tzu-hsu' kan Han-tai shu-hsQ te t'i- chih" ^aJJRJS£fek££ftfleJW«K Chung-kuo wen-che yen-chiu chi-kan l7 ...
Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters

Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters

Zhongshu Qian

Scholar, novelist, and essayist Qian Zhongshu (b. 1910) is arguably contemporary China's foremost man of letters, and Limited Views is recognized as the culmination of his study of literature in both the Chinese and the Western traditions.
Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Zhongshu Qian

This collection brings together Qian's best short works, combining his iconoclastic essays on the "book of life" from written in the Margins of Life (1941) with the four masterful short stories of Human, Beast, Ghost (1946).
Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature

Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature

Zhongshu QIAN

In Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature, translated by Duncan M. Campbell, the notable Chinese literary scholar Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) discusses aspects of the artistic and literary traditions of China, and the usages and ...
少年心理师: 催眠之巅

少年心理师: 催眠之巅

风念南

Ben shu jiang shu le:qian lai zi xun de huan zhe bu shi sha ren jiu shi zi sha,Zhi liao ji lu jing ran bian cheng si wang ji lu,Bei guan shang sha xing zhi cheng de shao nian xin li shi dao di ying gai he qu he cong,Qian tu wei bu,Pian you ...
Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach

Advanced Computer Architectures: A Design Space Approach

Desző Sima

This book is aimed at upper-division courses on architecture. It does not focus solely on parallel architectures like similar titles.
Besieged City:

Besieged City:

Zhongshu Qian

This abridged version is intended for students of Chinese. The novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life of some intellectuals in a morbid society during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Genetic Programming: 16th European Conference, EuroGP 2013, ...

Genetic Programming: 16th European Conference, EuroGP 2013, ...

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... Proceedings Krzysztof Krawiec, Alberto Moraglio, Ting Hu, A. Sima Etaner- Uyar, Bin Hu. Semantic Bias in Program Coevolution Tom Seaton, Julian F. Miller , and Tim Clarke Department of Electronics University of York {tas507,julian.miller  ...
Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of ...

Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of ...

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13 NathanNunnandNancy Qian, “TheColumbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas,” JournalofEconomic Perspectives, 24, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 163 –188: 2. 14 AnnM. Little,“'Shoot ThatRogue,forHeHath anEnglishman's Coat ...
The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song ...

The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song ...

Peter Lorge

Peace through War under the Song Dynasty Peter Lorge. causing a breakdown in communication. A similar problem would complicate Shizong's campaign against the Southern Tang. 1 Sima Guang, Zizhi Tongjian [hereafter ZZTJ], Beijing: ...
Journal of Chinese Religions

Journal of Chinese Religions

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It was by a translation of this latter name, shenjing shuairuo ####, that the Buddhist layman Jiang Qian Iñá (1876-1942) and the monk Hongyi is, - (1880- 1942) understood their illnesses. See Beverley Foulks McGuire's article in this issue, ...
Memory-based Parsing

Memory-based Parsing

Sandra Kübler

Rens Bod, Remko Scha & Khalil Sima'an, eds. DataOriented Parsing. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Chapter 12, 211– 232. Bonnema, Remko & Remko Scha. 2003. “Reconsidering the Probability Model for Data-Oriented Parsing”.
Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity

Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity

Bob Flaws

This book offers Qian Long's sage advice on the role of diet, exercise, relaxation, emotions, sex, and environment in achieving long life and good health.

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