Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian.
His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia..
About the Author: Burton Watson is one of the world\'s best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese.
These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time.
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian