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Indiana University Press The Grand Scribes Records Volume V.1 The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China Part I by Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, Hongyu Huang
With Part I of the two-part fifth volume of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), we enter the world of the shih chia or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history of China's first states, from their establishment in the 11th century B.C. until their incorporation in the first empire under the Ch'in in 221 B.C. Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and biography based on early written and oral sources, many no longer extant, the narratives make for compelling reading, as dramatic and readable as any in this grand history._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Acknowledgments_x000D_
Introduction (William H. Nienhauser, Jr.)_x000D_
On Using this Book_x000D_
A Note on Terms_x000D_
Weights and Measures (Lu Zongli)_x000D_
List of Abbreviations_x000D_
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Hereditary House 1 (Zhi Chen and William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translators)_x000D_
Hereditary House 2 (Bruce Knickerbocker, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 3 (Weiguo Cao, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 4 (Hongyu Huang, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 5 (William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 6 (Wang Jing, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 7 (Scott Cook, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 8 (Zhenjun Zhang, translator)_x000D_
Hereditary House 9 (Zhao Hua and William H. Nienhauser, Jr., translators)_x000D_
Hereditary House 10 (Weiguo Cao, translator)_x000D_
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Frequently Mentioned Commentators_x000D_
Biographical Sketches of Shih chi Commentators (Juri Kroll)_x000D_
Selected Recent Studies of the Shih chi_x000D_
Index_x000D_
Maps_x000D_