Who are the Ancient Chinese equivalent of Livy and Tacitus?
The Shiji by Sima Qian is the first real work of ancient Chinese history. You can also find historical bits and pieces in Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi etc. but you should understand that translating Chinese is fraught and entire meaning of passages can change from one translation to another. Make sure you have commentaries to work with if you want to make the most of ancient Chinese texts in English.
>>24848199What about the Spring and Autumn Anals? Is it worth reading?
>>24848414Nta but it’s generally regarded that you won’t get much out of the chunqiu without one of the classic commentaries, eg the Zuo tradition.
>>24848414>AnalsThe word you want is 'Annals'.Mistaking one for the other could be awkward desu.
>>24849011kek
>>24848029Bin Fung Shao wrote the Chinese equivalent of De Bello Civili
>>24848029https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Histories
