Records of the Grand Historian (Qin Dynasty) and delivers sharp social criticism

and delivers sharp social criticism with an acute awareness of probabilities and possibilities

written like fiction but reflecting what we see on the screen

Extracts from Chinese film scripts and other texts from the 1930s to this century are included in this issue

Yu managed to read widely in world literature thanks to the large volume of banned books in circulation underground

Records of the Grand Historian (Qin Dynasty) and delivers sharp social criticismBy Sima Qian Translated by Burton Watson 1993 Co published with Columbia University Press xviii + 221 pages ISBN 0231 08168 5 Sima Qian (145?90? BC) is the first major Chinese historian. His Shi ji, or Records of the Grand Historian, records the history of China and much of the adjacent world from the remote past to his own time. These three volumes contain a new translation of the history of the Qin dynasty (221206 BC) and a revised version of the