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“... a careful English translation of two and a half of the biographical chapters. Then, in 1961, Burton Watson, who had already published a fine analytical study of Sima Qian as a historian, took the bold step of cutting through the problems of scale and scope by publishing two volumes which drew together most of the chapters from the Shi Ji concerned ...”

“... who eluded her too amorous suitor by hiding among pigs, stands the funerary monument of Robert Burton. Already, it will be noticed, I am giving more information than is strictly necessary. My excuse must be that it is a habit I have caught from Burton himself. A schoolboy, asked to produce a review, is said to have ...”

“... by scholars in recent decades: Richard Bulliet on the economic importance of the camel, Andrew Watson on the role of the Arabs as introducers of new crops, Oleg Grabar on the Dome of the Rock, and so on. It is, however, a tribute to both the scope and depth of Lewis’s research in the past half-century that so much of the material he draws on is his ...”