SOURCE: Nienhauser, William H, Jr. “A Reexamination of ‘The Biographies of the Reasonable Officials’ in the Records of the Grand Historian.” Early China 16 (1991): 209-33.
In the following essay, Nienhauser examines problems with The Biographies of the Reasonable Officials section of the Shih chi and contends they can be resolved without concluding that the work is a forgery.
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