名家讲史记(英文版)

作者简介

编者：《文史知识》编辑部。《文史知识》杂志自创刊以来，一直坚持大专家写小文章，坚持深入浅出地介绍和评述中国优秀传统文化，受到学术界的广泛好评。其作者荟萃全国一流文史专家，内容涵盖中国传统文化各个方面，文章知识性、趣味性、学术性兼备，深入浅出，雅俗共赏。 Editorial Board of Chinese Literature and History: Since the first issue of the Chinese Literature and History magazine, the Editorial Department has been embracing the principle to invite highly proficient experts to write easy-to-understand articles to introduce and review the excellent traditional Chinese culture in simple language. Therefore, the magazine has won wide acclaim in the academic circle. It has attracted a great number of Chinese authors, who are top experts in literature and history. Its content covers all aspects of traditional Chinese culture. Its articles are highly informative, interesting and academically outstanding. The adoption of the way to explain the profound in simple terms make the articles suit both refined and popular tastes.

内容简介

Sima Qian and the Records of the Grand Historian An Pingqiu The author not only aimed to record the historical events and people, but wanted to explore the relationship between nature, and the human affairs as well as the historical evolution. The book reflects the knowledge and experience of the historian who lived 2,000 years ago. Due to lack of ‘correct’ theoretical guidance, it was difficult for him to make the right conclusion.As a historical book, the Records of the Grand Historian is praiseworthy, because the author had done a thorough job on the historical materials, and has been faithful to the facts. Sima Qian made a careful analysis and reviewed huge amounts of written materials to eliminate the false and retain the true. He never judged a person by his success or failure and never go with the stream. He did not sing groundless praises of anyone or conceal any evildoers and bad deeds,shortcomings or mistakes. He paid great respect to Confucius. However, he criticized Confucius for his preposterous and groundless praises of contemporary historical figures and events in The Spring and Autumn Annals . There is another example. Concerning Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, he revealed the emperor’s foresight, generosity, open-mindedness and talent in discovering capable people,and putting them at suitable posts. However, he also vividly described the emperor to be mischievous. That is why the Records of the Grand Historian is recognized as a faithful historical account through the ages. When writing the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian devised a way to present history in series of biographies. This was done by writing biographical literature by combining depiction of figures with description of scenes. He recorded the historical events in a faithful and vivid way, such as the “Fire Bull Strategy”, “the Emperor and the Assassin”, the “Banquet at Hongmen” and the “Battle of Gaixia”, which are not only historical records but also recreated literature with specific scenes and vivid figures, and until this day it is universally praised. That’s why Lu Xun said the Records of the Grand Historian is a masterpiece of historical works and on par with the Lisao(one of the works by Qu Yuan) even without rhyme. 本书作者既包括近现代大家如梁启超、朱自清，也包括当代名家安平秋、韩兆琦等，还包括一些中青年学者。文章内容既有总论，也有从历史、文学、天文学及国际传播等不同侧面研究和介绍《史记》重要价值的，较为全面地引导读者全面认识和走进《史记》的世界。 The authors include not only Liang Qichao, Zhu Ziqing and other contemporary masters but also An Pingqiu, Han Zhaoqi and other modern famous scholars as well as some young and middle-aged scholars. The book, comprising both general expositions and specific discussions from the aspect of history, literature, astronomy and international communications to study and introduce the high value of Records of the Grand Historian, ushers the readers to enter and know the world of the historical masterpiece in a relatively comprehensive way.