Records of the Grand Historian : Han Dynasty, Volume 2

Qian Sima; Burton Watson
Columbia University Press
9780231081672
0-231-08167-7

This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's Rulers. Here the historian.

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is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known. In Nagano Hozan's (1783-1837) words, He makes us see in our minds the character of the men of the time, and this is why he is a great historian.: