Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien
By: traduits et annotés par Édouard Chavannes ....
Contributors: Chavannes, Edouard, 1865-1918.
Edition: [Nouvelle édition.]
Series: Collection U.N.E.S.C.O. d'œuvre représentatives. Série chinoise
Publisher: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre; chi
Subjects: China -- History -- To 221 B.C.; China -- History -- Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C.; China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
Notes: Vol. 6 has title: Traduction des chapitres XLVIII-LII. Compléments et index général.
Vol. 3 issued in 2 parts in original ed., 1895-1905; t.p. of 2d part not included in this reprint.
The original work consists of 130 chapters in 5 sections of which Chavannes translated the first 47 chapters, leaving chapters 48-130 unfinished at the time of his death. Cf. Cordier, H., in Journal asiatique, mars-avril 1918, 11. sér., t. 11, p. 201-203, and 225; and G. G. Warren, in Journal of the North-China branch of the R.A.S., 1916, v. 47, p. 12-38; also his articles Ssǔ-ma Chʻien in Encycl. sinica, 1917, pt. 1, p. 525.
Translation of: Shi ji.