Records of the historian
Subtitle: chapters from the Shih chi.
By: Translated by Burton Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Burton, 1925-; Takigawa, Kametarō, b. 1865.
Series: UNESCO collection of representative works: Chinese series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: China -- History -- 1766 B. C. -- 220 A. D
Notes: "Prepared for the Columbia College program of translations from the Oriental classics."

"On the whole ... [the translator has] followed the text of the Shih chi as it appears in the edition entitled Shiki kaichū kōshō (Tokyo, 1934), edited and with a commentary in Chinese by Takikawa Kametarō."