Records of the Grand Historian, Ch'ien Ssu-Ma, Qian Sima, Columbia University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-231-08169-6, ... 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 ...
China: ancient culture, modern land, Robert E. Murowchick, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8061-2683-8, ... The 'Records of the Historian' consists of 130 chapters divided into five large sections: 'Basic Annals,' 'Chronological Tables,' 'Treatises,' 'Hereditary Houses,' and 'Biographies' ...