War-lords

by Sima Qian

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Shelf and edgewear to jacket, light tanning of board edges. Previous owner's details penned to FEP, tanning of endpapers and foxing to pageblock. Text is clean and spine is tight. AD

168 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Sima Qian (Szu-ma Chien; 司馬遷 c. 145 or 135 BC – 86 BC) was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his work, the Records of the Grand Historian, a Jizhuanti-style (纪传体) general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to his time, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Although he worked as the Court Astrologer (Chinese: 太史令; Tàishǐ Lìng), later generations refer to him as the Grand Historian (Chinese: 太史公; taishigong or tai-shih-kung) for his monumental work. (Wikipedia)