Download or read book Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo written by Grant Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo, Grant Hardy presents convincing evidence that the Shiji is quite unlike such Western counterparts as the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, for, Hardy argues, Sima Qian's work seeks not only to represent but also to influence the world in a manner based on Confucian concepts of sageliness and "the rectification of names."