Records of the historian
Subtitle: chapters from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien
By: translated by Burton Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Burton, 1925-; Takigawa, Kametarō, b. 1865.
Series: UNESCO collection of representative works
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: China -- History -- To 221 B.C
Work titles: Shi ji.
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 editon entitled Shiki kaichū kōshō (Tokyo, 1934), edited and with a commentary in Chinese by Takikawa Kametarō."