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The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VI, contains annotated
translations of the "hereditary houses" for the Ch'in and Han
dynasties. Such "houses" were an invention of Ssu-ma Ch'ien and in
early periods treated the history of various states. Here, however,
the subjects vary, often containing merely biographies of their
main protagonist. The volume begins with an account of the rebel
Ch'en She in chapter 48, whose "house" consisted of the other rebel
leaders he spawned into action against the Ch'in dynasty, and ends
in chapter 60 with the memorials concerning the reigns of the sons
of Emperor Wu of the Han born to concubines, men whose reigns ended
badly. Besides accounts of the kings from the royal Liu family,
included are the stories of the maternal relatives, empresses, and
imperial consorts, as well as the major statesmen and military
leaders who guided the Han victory.
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine
memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of
collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the
ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites,
those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and
those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of
Emperor Wu's wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with
Ssu-ma Ch'ien's postface containing a history of his family and
himself.
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