Historical Records with New Annotations (Complete Four Volumes)

Author: Sima Qian (Han) Author, Zhang Da Ke Annotation
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The new annotations create a completely new annotation format, including preface, five-body explanation, title explanation, paragraph summary, concise annotation, and brief discussion.
1. Preface. It provides a macro evaluation of Sima Qian as a person and his works, outlining the overall structure, style, and historical content of the Historical Treatises.
2. Five-Body Explanation. It gives a concise overview of the five-body characteristics of the Records of the Grand Historian and its brief table of contents, commenting on the compilation studies of the Records.
3. Title Explanation. Added before each chapter, it combines problem-solving with title summary, including interpreting the chapter title, introducing the main subject, revealing the chapter (upper day), and authorial intent.
4. Paragraph Summary. It summarizes the content of each paragraph, serving to highlight the key points, analyze, and synthesize.
5. Concise Annotation. It clarifies the original text in a concise and straightforward manner, explaining terms, phonetics, meanings, characters, geographical names, institutional conventions, and historical anecdotes in plain language.
6. Brief Discussion. The content is flexible, expressing insights, or evaluating or discussing, supplementing historical events, and elaborating when relevant, or omitting when unnecessary. The six annotation formats are organically connected and mutually complementary. Each single chapter includes four content items: the concise annotation provides micro-explanations, focusing on clarifying content and incorporating new research findings from academia. The writing style is profound yet accessible, with a unique and distinctive style.