Records of the Grand Historian

Qian Sima, Burton Watson

• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Anno: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780231521079
• Argomento: Storia
• Categoria: Storia dell'Asia

This volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China’s Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known. In Nagano Hozan’s (1783-1837) words, "He makes us see in our minds the character of the men of the time, and this is why he is a great historian.:

INDEX

Actor Zhan

Ai, Duke of Qin

Altar of Fu

Altar of the West

Analects

ba, hegemon; see also Five Hegemons

Bai Qi

Baili Xi

Ban Gu

Baosi

Bi Gan

Bodde, Derk

Book of Changes (Yi jing)

Book of Documents

Book of Lord Shang

Book of Odes

Book of Rites

Boyi

Burning of the Books

Cai Ze

Cao Mei

cauldrons of Zhou (nine cauldrons)

Chavannes, Édouard

Chen She

Cheng, Duke of Qin

Cheng, King of Zhou

Chonger (Duke Wen of Jin)

Chu, state of

Chunyu Yue

Chuzi

Confucius

Crump, J.I.

Dafei

Dafu Zhong

Daluo

Dan, Crown Prince of Yan

Dao, Duke of Qin

Daye

De, Duke of Qin

Di tribes

Dog Rong

Duke of Shou

Duke of Zhao

Duyvendak, J.J.L.

Eastern Zhou

Epang Palace

eunuchs

Fan family of Jin

Fan Ju, marquis of Ying

Fan Li (Lord Zhu of Tao)

Fan Yuqi

Fei Chang

Feizi

Feng and Shan sacrifices

Feng Quqi

First Emperor of Qin (Zheng)

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Five Elements (Five Powers)

Five Emperors

Five Hegemons

five penalties

fu summer sacrifice

fu tax

Fuchai, King of Wu

Fusu, Prince, eldest son of First Emperor

Gan Luo

Gan Mou

Gong, Duke of Qin

Gongsun Yang — see Lord Shang

Gongzi Ang

Goujian, King of Yue

Great Wall

Guan Longfeng

Guan Zhong

Han (dynasty)

Han Fei

Hangu Pass

Hann, state of

Helü, King of Wu

Horizontal Alliance

Hu barbarians

Huai, Duke of Qin

Huai, King of Chu

Huan, Duke of Qi

Huan, Duke of Qin

Huan Ji

Huayang, Lady (Queen Dowager Huayang)

Huhai — see Second Emperor of the Qin

Hui (I), Duke of Qin

Hui (II), Duke of Qin

Hui, King of Zhou

Huiwen, King of Qin

Hulsewé, A.F.P.

Intrigues of the Warring States — see Zhanguo ce

Ji clan

Ji Zi

Jia Yi

Jian, Duke of Qin

Jian Shu

Jianglü, Prince, son of First Emperor

Jie, last ruler of Xia dynasty

Jieyu

Jing, Duke of Qin

Jing, state of — see Chu, state of

Jing Ke

jun, province or commandery

Kang, Duke of Qin

keqing, guest minister

la festival

Lady Li

Lao Ai

lao, set of sacrificial animals

Li, Duke of Jin

Li, King of Zhou

Li Ling

Li Si

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Li Xin

Li You

Li Yuning

Lian Po

Liang, state of — see Wei, state of

Ligong, Duke of Qin

Ling, Duke of Jin

Ling, Duke of Qin

Ling, King of Chu

Liu Ji (Liu Bang, see also governor of Pei)

Lord Five Ram Skins — see Baili Xi

Lord on High

Lord Shang (Wei Yang)

Lü Buwei (marquis of Wenxin)

Lü Wang (Lü Shang)

Man barbarians

Master Lu

Meng Ao

Meng Tian

Meng Yi

Mengming Shi

mengzhu, “leader of the alliance”

Mo Zi (Mo Di)

Mt. Hua

Mt. Kuaiji

Mt. Langya

Mt. Li

Mt. Qi

Mt. Tai

Mt. Xiang

Mt. Zhifu

Mu, Duke of Qin

Mu, King of Zhou

Ning, Duke of Qin

Nühua

Nüxiu

Palace of Sweet Springs

Pei, governor of (Liu Ji)

Ping, King of Chu

Ping, King of Zhou

Qi, state of

Qin (dynasty)

Qin, state of

Qin Wuyang

Qin Ying

Qin Zhong

Queen Dowager Xuan of Qin

Ren Bi

Rong tribes (see also Western Rong, Dog Rong)

Second Emperor of the Qin (Huhai)

Shang (dynasty)

Shanglin Park

Shen Buhai

Shen, marquis

Shensheng, heir apparent of Jin

Shuli Zi

Shun, Emperor

Sima Cuo

Sima Qian

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Sima Xin

Six States

Song, state of

Spring and Autumn Annals

Spring and Autumn of Mr Lü

Su Dai

Taiwu, Emperor

Tang, King

Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)

Three Jin (Hann, Wei and Zhao)

three sets of relatives

Treasures of Chen

Twitchett, Denis, & Michael Loewe

Vertical Alliance

Wang Ji

Wang Jian

Wang Li

Wang Ling

Wang Pen

Wang Wan

Wei, state of

Wei Liao

Wei Qi

Wei Ran, marquis of Rang

Wei Yang — see Lord Shang

Wen, Duke of Jin — see Chonger

Wen, Duke of Qin

Wen, King of Zhou

Western Rong

Western Zhou (dynasty)

Wey, state of

Wu, Duke of Qin

Wu, Emperor of Han

Wu, King of Qin

Wu, King of Zhou

Wu, state of

Wu Guang

Wu Pass

Wu Qi

Wu Zixu

Xi, King of Yan

Xia (dynasty)

xian, district

Xian, Duke of Qin

Xiang, Duke of Qin

Xiang Liang

Xiang Shou

Xiang Yan

Xiang Yu

Xianyang, capital of Qin

Xiao, Duke of Qin

Xiao, King of Zhou

Xiaowen, King of Qin

Xiongnu tribes

Xu Fu

Xu Jia

Xuan, Duke of Qin

Xuan, King of Zhou

Xue Wen (Lord Mengchang)

Xun Qing (Xun Zi)

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Yan, state of

Yan Ying

Yan Yue

Yang, Gladys & Hsien-yi

Yao, Emperor

Yao Pass

Yellow Emperor

Yi tribes

Ying (family name of Qin rulers)

Yong, city in Qin

You, King of Zhou

You Yu

Yu, Emperor

Yue, hundred tribes of

Yue, state of

Zao, Duke of Qin

Zaofu

Zeng Can

Zhai Black Wolf

Zhang Han

Zhang Liang

Zhang Tang

Zhang Yi

Zhanguo ce (Intrigues of the Warring States)

Zhao, state of

Zhao Gao

Zhao Kuo

Zhao Sheng (Lord Pingyuan)

Zhaoxiang, King of Qin

zhen (personal pronoun)

Zheng — see First Emperor of Qin

Zheng, state of

Zhi family of Jin

Zhonghang family of Jin

Zhongshan, state of

Zhongyan

Zhou (dynasty)

Zhou, last ruler of Shang dynasty

Zhou Qingchen

Zhuan Xu, Emperor

Zhuang, Duke of Qin

Zhuang, King of Chu

Zhuangxiang, King of Qin

Ziying, Prince, last ruler of Qin

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Our understanding of the Qin legal system has been unexpectedly enriched by the discovery in 1975 of a large number of legal and administrative texts written on bamboo in the grave of a Qin local official who died in 217 BC. These suggest that the Qin laws may have been somewhat less severe than traditional ...