Narrative Devices in the Shiji

Narrative Devices in the ShijiProvides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts. Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Records of the Historian), a vast collection of historical accounts completed by Sima Qian (14586 BCE). For centuries, the dominant approach to the Shiji has been to infer Sima's

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