Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Britishnoun
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A version of his dissertation, on Sima Qian, a historian of the Han dynasty, was published by Columbia University Press in 1958 as “Ssu-ma Ch’ien, Grand Historian of China.”
From New York Times
About Sun Tzu himself this is all that Ssu-ma Ch`ien has to tell us in this chapter.
From Project Gutenberg
It is obvious enough that Ssu-ma Ch`ien at least had no doubt about the reality of Sun Wu as an historical personage; and with one exception, to be noticed presently, he is by far the most important authority on the period in question.
From Project Gutenberg
It is evident that this cannot be merely the 13 chapters known to Ssu-ma Ch`ien, or those we possess today.
From Project Gutenberg
Between Ssu-ma Ch`ien and Pan Ku there was plenty of time for a luxuriant crop of forgeries to have grown up under the magic name of Sun Tzu, and the 82 P`IEN may very well represent a collected edition of these lumped together with the original work.
From Project Gutenberg
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