On Sima Qian's Praises to the Ruler

DOI

10.2991/hss-17.2017.86How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sima Qian, The Grand Scribe's Records, the Praises to the Ruler, A Transmitter and not a Maker.

Abstract

Sima Qian took himself as Confucius' inheritor in His Honor the Grand Scribe's self-annotation. He changed his attitude suddenly to say that his book narrated, but not create after Husui posed the problem. Why Was Sima Qian so inconsistent? As a historian, Sima Qian couldn't make the emperor unsatisfied. He had to let emperor trust him. So he stressed that his history book was to praise the ruler and he narrated, but not create to protect himself averting disasters and crises.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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