The letter to Ren An & Sima Qian's legacy /

The letter to Ren An & Sima Qian's legacy /

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"'Surely, a man has but one death. That death may be as heavy as Mount Tai or as light as a goose feather. It is how he uses that death that makes all the difference!' So wrote Sima Qian (first century BCE), author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), the first comprehensive history of...

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Main Authors: Durrant, Stephen W., 1944- (Author), Ess, Hans van (Author), Li, Wai-yee (Author), Nylan, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
©2016.
Subjects:
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Correspondence.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Authorship.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Criticism and interpretation.
Sima, Qian, > approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C. > Influence.
Chinese letters > History and criticism.
Friendship > China > History > To 1500 > Sources.
Historians > China > Correspondence.
China > History > Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
China > Intellectual life > 221 B.C.-960 A.D. > Sources.
China > Politics and government > 221 B.C.-220 A.D. > Sources.

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