司马迁
作者： 郭维森著
出版社：南京大学出版社,2010
简介： The Collection of Critical Biographies of Chinese Thinkers,
under the general editorship of the late honorary president of
Nanjing University, Professor Kuang Yaming, is the largest-scale
project of research materials on Chinese thinkers undertaken
since the beginning of the twentieth century. Standing on the
shoulders of this great man and other 200 well-known Chinese
professors, this collection of concise Chinese-English version is
not only based on a profound academic foundation, but also
exhibits a brand new feature which is the virtue of explaining
the profound in a simple way, hence leading readers to mastery of
the contents; it also incorporates a refined principle of
selection, a simple mode of evaluation and commentary, and a
moving narration of the stories and their wisdom.
Sima Qian, the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han
Dynasty, is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography
because of his highly praised work--Records of the Grand
Historian (Shiji), a general history of China covering more than
three thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu of the
Han. His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese
historiography.
