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By: (Bei Song) Sima Guang zhu ; Shen Zhihua deng jin yi ; Kong Xurong Ying yi = Selected essays from the history as a mirror / written by Sima Guang (Northern Song Dynasty) ; translated into modern Chinese by Shen Zhihua et al ; translated into English by Kong Xurong
Edition: Di 1 ban.
Series: Da Zhonghua wen ku = -- Library of Chinese classics; Da Zhonghua wen ku
Publisher: Zhonghua shu ju
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Beijing Shi
Language: chi; eng
Number of pages: 1207
ISBN-13: 9787101122886
Subjects: Translations into English; History; Warring States (China : 403-221 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01355302; Zi zhi tong jian (Sima, Guang)
Other titles: Zi zhi tong jian xuan; Selected essays from the history as a mirror
Description: History as a Mirror is a general chronicle of chinese history, recorfing the periods starting in the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) and ending in the sixth year of the Xiande Era of later Zhou (959 AD). there are 290 chapters with a tatal of three million characters, covering 1,362 years of history. Sima Guang (1019-1086), is a politiction, historian and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. The purpose of this compilation was to gain lessons from history and to teach rulers the strategies of managing a country, which is why this book focuses on political concerns, and seldom mentions economic or cultural issues. The English translation is based on the annotated selection by Wang Zhongluo published by Zhonghua Book Company, with the help of Dr. Sue Gronewold, an expert in Asian history, and Dr. Chris Donoghue, a sociologist, both from America.
Notes: "Ben shu chu ban de dao 'Da Zhonghua wen ku' chu ban jing fei zi zhu"-Added title page.

Text in Chinese and English.