Selected Historical Records
by (western Han Dynasty) By Sima Qian And Selected Annotations By Wang Boxiang
About This Novel
"Historical Records" is a general history written by Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty. The whole book consists of twelve chronicles, thirty families, seventy biographies, ten tables, and eight books, with a total of 130 chapters and more than 500,000 words. It is the first biographical general history in Chinese history. Its pioneering biographical style was followed by the "official histories" of subsequent dynasties and has far-reaching influence. The book is also an excellent literary work, and Lu Xun praised it as "the historian's swan song, the rhymeless "Li Sao"". Wang Boxiang's "Selected Historical Records" mainly selects famous chapters from the chronicles and biographies, and annotates the difficult words and regulations in them, which is very helpful for reading and understanding the book.
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