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they represent Han's best work to date
and delivers sharp social criticism with an acute awareness of probabilities and possibilities
This title was awarded the PEN Center USA Awards 2007 for Translation
melodious poetry but also his tempestuous love affairs and tragic death
occasioning intense soul-searching and close scrutiny of their society among the general population
Records of the Grand Historian (Qin Dynasty) they represent Han's best workBy Sima Qian Translated by Burton Watson 1993 Co published with Columbia University Press xviii + 221 pages ISBN 0231 08168 5 Sima Qian (145?90? BC) is the first major Chinese historian. His Shi ji, or Records of the Grand Historian, records the history of China and much of the adjacent world from the remote past to his own time. These three volumes contain a new translation of the history of the Qin dynasty (221206 BC) and a revised version of the