Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History

by Grant Hardy (Author), Grant Hardy (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1999

  $101.09

  Sima Qian was China's first historian, and his Shiji has been an enormously influential resource to historians, literary scholars, and philosophers. Hardy juxtaposes Qian with the Greek historians, raising important questions about historical objectivity and the role of the historian in influencing the present and future.