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| Named Person: | Qian Sima; Qian Sima; Qian Sima; Qian Sima |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Grant Hardy |
| ISBN: | 0231113048 9780231113045 0231113056 9780231113052 |
| OCLC Number: | 40489168 |
| Description: | xviii, 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Why History? -- The Role of History in Chinese Culture -- Sima Qian and History -- Representing the World -- The Structure of the Shiji -- Reading the Structure -- A Bamboo World -- Microcosmic Reading I -- The Web of History -- Multiple Narrations -- Microcosmic Reading II -- The Significance of Events -- Assessing Generalizations -- Shaping the World -- Judgmental History -- The Shiji as a Hermeneutical Tool -- Transforming the World -- Confucian Reading I -- Guiding Interpretation -- Chronicling the Sage -- Confucian Reading II -- A World of Bronze -- Contesting the World -- Understanding the World -- Fitting the Times -- The Limits of Rationality -- Knowing and Being Known. |
| Other Titles: | Sima Qian's conquest of history |
| Responsibility: | Grant Hardy. |
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Abstract:
Sima Qian was China's first historian, and his Shiji has been an enormously influential resource to historians, literary scholars, and philosophers. Hardy juxtaposes Qian with the Greek historians, raising important questions about historical "objectivity" and the role of the historian in influencing the present and future.
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Hardys work should become the first book consulted by scholars of the Western tradition who want to know something about Sima Qian and how he is to be positioned with regard to their own historiographic tradition. Read more...
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