"Prepared for the Columbia College program of translations from the Oriental classics."

"On the whole ... [the translator has] followed the text of the Shih chi as it appears in the edition entitled Shiki kaichū kōshō (Tokyo, 1934), edited and with a commentary in Chinese by Takikawa Kametarō."

The biography of Po Yi and Shu Ch'i (Shih chi 61) -- The biography of Wu Tzu-hsü (Shih chi 66) -- The biography of T'ien Tan (Shih chi 82) -- The biography of Lü Pu-wei (Shih chi 85) -- The biographies of the Assassin-Retainers (Shih chi 86) -- The basic annals of Hsiang Yü (Shih chi 7) -- The basic annals of Emperor Kaotsu (Shih chi 8) -- Reflections on the rise of Emperor Kao-tsu (Shih chi 16, excerpt) -- The hereditary house of Prime Minister Hsiao (Shih chi 53) -- The hereditary house of the Marquis of Liu (Chang Liang) (Shih chi 55) -- The biography of the Marquis of Huai-yin (Han Hsin) (Shih chi 92) -- The biographies of Li I-chi and Lu Chia (Shih chi 97) -- The biographies of Liu Ching and Shu-sun T'ung (Shih chi 99) -- The treatise on the Yellow River and canals (Shih chi 29) -- The biographies of the Marquises of Wei-ch'i and Wu-an (Shih chi 107) -- The biography of General Li Kuang (Shih...)