{"product_id":"9789819234875","title":"Across Time and Space: The Basic Annals, Tables and Treatises of the Shiji","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAcross Time and Space: The Basic Annals, Tables and Treatises of the Shiji\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eZhenghong Chen | Huang Hongyu\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Asia \/ China\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eThis book summarizes the comprehensive history in the form of annals and biographies has become a towering monument of Chinese culture. Shiji (The Grand Scribe‘s Records) as China's first comprehensive history in the form of annals and biographies has made it a towering monument in the history of Chinese culture. However, in order for non-professional readers to understand and read it, a guide book that not only outlines the storylines, reveals the textual subtleties, but also explains the profound themes in plains terms is much needed. “Chen Zhenghong's Series on History” is such a series of high-level books which make academic books approachable for general readers, and this book is the first of the series. According to the structure and chapter order of the Shiji, this book analyzes the “Basic Annals” that describe the lineage of emperors, the “Tables” that presents history through time and space, and the “Treatises” that record various ancient institutions. With a humorous style of writing and more than 20 years of teaching experience, the author cuts into the topic in a way that readers like to hear, not only telling stories, but also analyzing the structure of the chapter, the textual source of the stories, and the editor's intention, so that readers not only know “what” but also know “how” and “why.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eThis book not only discusses the “Basic Annals” part of the Shiji, which is relatively familiar to the public, but also discusses the “Tables” and “Treatises,” which are difficult to understand and rarely read in popular reading. The case-study explanation of the “Tables” is especially innovative. This book does not follow the usual approach of popularized readings to explain the historical stories recorded in the Shiji, but discusses the textual sources and historical evolvement of these stories from a scholarly perspective. With extensive references to the research outputs on the Shiji, this book also shows a two-thousand- year history of transmitting and reading the Shiji from some special angels. With profound learning, the author has combed through the examinations and comments of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign researchers, compared textual sources with archaeological discoveries in China, so that historical materials and cultural relics can be dialogued, and the people of today and the ancients resonate. This book has made numerous Best Book Lists in China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eIn the West, the translation, introduction and dissemination of the Shiji has a history of more than 100 years, and there have been excellent achievements in Sinology such as Chavannes’s French translation, Vytkins’ Russian translation, Burton Watson’s English translation, William H. Nienhauser’s English Team Translation, Stephen Durrant and Grant Hardy’s English monographs. However, academic bestsellers for the general public (especially for guided reading class of the Chinese classics) are still scanty in the international publishing market. The English translation and introduction of this book will tell original Chinese historical stories and profound cultural connotations behind them in a plain and readable language that Western readers can understand, so as to expand the global influence of East Asian civilization. William H. Nienhauser, an American sinologist and an expert on the English translation of the Shiji, commented on the book as “a popular book with acadmeic insight,” and happily agreed to write an introduction for the English version to promote exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and Western academic circles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eChen Zhenghong is Professor at the Institute of Ancient Classics of Fudan University, mainly engaged in the teaching and research of bibliography of book editions, comparative philology, art literature, and art history. He has authored \u003cem\u003eIntensive Reading of the Shiji\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBloodline: The Hereditary Houses of the Shiji\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Preliminary Probe into the Editional Study of Chinese Classsics in East Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Chronological Biography of Shen Zhou\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Study of the History of Integrating Poetry and Painting \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eA Brief History of Forbidden Books in China\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. In 2018, his online course on the \u003cem\u003eShiji\u003c\/em\u003e launched on Himalaya FM attracted nearly 3 million listeners in China.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eHuang Hongyu is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught Chinese language and literature at Swarthmore College and West Point. She has contributed to five volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Grand Scribe‘s Rerords\u003c\/em\u003e, an ongoing annotated translation of the \u003cem\u003eShiji\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of the Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards at both the municipal and provincial levels in China as well as the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service issued by the American government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eBruce Knickerbocker is Senior Lecturer at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has been Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College (UIC), and Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature at both Northwestern University and Bard College in the United States. He has contributed to two volumes of \u003cem\u003eThe Grand Scribe‘s Rerords\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eShiji\u003c\/em\u003e), in addition to works in language pedagogy and Tang \u003cem\u003echuanqi \u003c\/em\u003etales. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 September 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819234875\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591433883788,"sku":"9789819234875","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819234875","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}