Records of the Grand Historian

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Records of the Grand Historian (Revised Edition of the Revised Twenty-Four Histories with Modern Punctuation and Collation, Ten Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Records of the Grand Historian (Revised Edition of the Revised Twenty-Four Histories with Modern Punctuation and Collation, Ten Volumes) Sima Qian / 裴骃 / Sima Zhen / Zhang Shoujie Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) is China's first comprehensive chronological history in the biographical style, written by the Western Han …
The Earth Chronicles 3: The Wars of Gods and Men cover
Rating 4.2
The Earth Chronicles 3: The Wars of Gods and Men Zecharia Sitchin Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 This is the third volume of Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series; the English original, The Wars of Gods and Men, appeared in 1985. Sitchin was …
Bubai Chi Comics: Fall in Love with Reading the Records of the Grand Historian (Three Volumes) cover
Rating 4.7
Bubai Chi Comics: Fall in Love with Reading the Records of the Grand Historian (Three Volumes) Bu Baichi (Tang Kaiqi) Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 The Records of the Grand Historian is hailed as the first of the Twenty-Four Histories and is also a recommended history primer for primary and second…
The Qin Trilogy cover
Rating 3.8
The Qin Trilogy Lü Shihao Jieli Publishing House · 2016 The Qin Trilogy is a collection of popular history by Lü Shihao, a faculty member in the Department of History at National Taiwan University, based on…
Death If Unverified: Occult Arts, Apocryphal Prophecy, and Political Culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties cover
Rating 3.2
Death If Unverified: Occult Arts, Apocryphal Prophecy, and Political Culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties 董涛 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2025 The title of this book comes from a Qin legal statute recorded in the Basic Annals of the First Emperor of Qin in the Records of the Grand Historian: …
From "Mountain Bandits" to "Water Rebels": The Past and Present of Water Margin cover
Rating 3.8
From "Mountain Bandits" to "Water Rebels": The Past and Present of Water Margin Hou Hui Zhejiang Guji Publishing House · 2018 Water Margin is a representative work of heroic legend fiction, yet the historical Song Jiang uprising has only scattered records and was limited in s…
Records of the Grand Historian (Annotated and Fully Translated, 6 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Records of the Grand Historian (Annotated and Fully Translated, 6 Volumes) Sima Qian / Li Hanwen Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016 Records of the Grand Historian is the first comprehensive chronological history of China written in the biographical style, composed by the Western Ha…
Diary of the British Museum (Plus Two Other Works) cover
Rating 3.5
Diary of the British Museum (Plus Two Other Works) Chen Pingyuan SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2017 This book is Chen Pingyuan's collection of essays in which he "reads Europe" through a scholar's eyes, consisting of three parts: the main text Diary …
The Character of History, Boxed Set (Strategists and Jianghu) cover
The Character of History, Boxed Set (Strategists and Jianghu) Fulanke Chemical Industry Press · 2016 The Character of History is a popular history of historical figures written by the historian and writer Fu Lanke on the basis of the Records of the Gr…
Tsai Chih Chung's Collected Classics in Comics, Series 2 (6-Volume Set) cover
Tsai Chih Chung's Collected Classics in Comics, Series 2 (6-Volume Set) Tsai Chih-chung Guangzhou Publishing House · 2015 The Cai Zhizhong Collector's Edition of Chinese Classics in Comics Series 2 is a six-volume full-color set in which cartoonist Cai Zhizhong adapts Chi…
Learning Strategy and Wisdom from History's Great Generals cover
Learning Strategy and Wisdom from History's Great Generals Liu Zizhong Zhejiang University Press · 2012 The book's smart move is that it shifts the familiar stories of famous generals in the Records of the Grand Historian from "how well they fought" to "…
Qin Shi Huang: A Journey of Critical Thinking Through Reality and History cover
Rating 4.0
Qin Shi Huang: A Journey of Critical Thinking Through Reality and History Lü Shihao Jieli Publishing House · 2015 A popular history book that achieves both "bestseller" and "high rating" usually relies on two things: being moving and being useful. This book has bo…
Romance of the Former Han cover
Rating 3.7
Romance of the Former Han Cai Dongfan Romance of the Former Han is the first volume of The Popular Romance of Chinese Dynasties (also known as The Popular Romance of Successive Dynasties) …
Through Time and Space: Fusang, Two Thousand Years in a Glance: With a Discussion of Xu Fu and the Eastward Spread of the Civilization of His Era cover
Through Time and Space: Fusang, Two Thousand Years in a Glance: With a Discussion of Xu Fu and the Eastward Spread of the Civilization of His Era 程天良 民主与建设出版社 · 2020 This is a history of Sino-Japanese relations written for general readers. Taking 'Fusang'—the classical Chinese name for Japan—as its entry point, aut…
An Appreciation Companion to the Twenty-Four Histories cover
Rating 3.8
An Appreciation Companion to the Twenty-Four Histories Gu Xiaoming Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House · 2017 The Ershisi Shi Appreciation Dictionary, edited by Gu Xiaoming, professor of history at Fudan University, was published by Shanghai Lexicographical Pu…
The Qin Trilogy cover
Rating 3.8
The Qin Trilogy Lü Shihao Jieli Publishing House · 2016 The Qin Trilogy is a work of popular history by Lü Shihao, a teacher in the Department of History at National Taiwan University, compiled from his pop…
The First Emperor: A Journey of Reflection Through Reality and History cover
Rating 4.0
The First Emperor: A Journey of Reflection Through Reality and History Lü Shihao Jieli Publishing House · 2015 This book is a popular history work compiled by Lü Shihao, a faculty member of the Department of History at National Taiwan University, from his Chine…
The Assassination of Qin: Rediscovering the Qin Dynasty cover
Rating 3.5
The Assassination of Qin: Rediscovering the Qin Dynasty 李开元 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 The story of Jing Ke's attempt to assassinate the King of Qin is known to every household, but how much of the record is factual and how much is later…
The Way of a Dullard to Sagehood: Zeng Guofan + The Opportunistic Schemer: Liu Bang (2-Book Set) cover
Rating 3.4
The Way of a Dullard to Sagehood: Zeng Guofan + The Opportunistic Schemer: Liu Bang (2-Book Set) Cui Jinsheng (pen name Wu Man Lanjiang) Xiamen University Press · 2014 This is an omnibus of two popular historical biographies by Wu Manlanjiang, published as separate volumes by Xiamen University Press in January 2014, …
Records of the Grand Historian in Modern Chinese cover
Rating 4.2
Records of the Grand Historian in Modern Chinese Sima Qian / 杨燕起 / Chen Huanliang Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2014 Records of the Grand Historian in Modern Chinese is a complete modern Chinese translation of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). Originally ti…