I europæisk oldtid nedtegnede græske og romerske historieskrivere fædrelandets historie fra fortidens mytiske helte frem til samtiden og grundlagde hermed en tradition, som fremover kom til at præge al europæisk historieskrivning. Det kinesiske modstykke hertil er Sima Qians Historiske optegnel[...]
'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the H[...]
In this accessible volume, Thomas R. Martin compares the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China to demonstrate the hallmarks of early history writing. While these authors lived in different centuries and were not aware of each other's works, Martin shows the[...]
Throughout history, the thinking of Western Europe and America has often dominated scholarly conversation, even on objects of study outside of those cultures. Thus Western academic inquiry into Chinese philosophy, for example, from Confucius and Laozi to Mozi and Chen Liang, has rarely engaged with [...]