SOURCE: Durrant, Stephen W. “(Wo)men with(out) Names.” In The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian, pp. 99-122. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995.
In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Qian's work, Durrant analyzes how Qian shaped the historical sources he used as the basis of his Shih chi.
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