Sima GuangSee also Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, 120, 180, 242

Sima QianSee also Records of the Grand Historian, xiv–xv, xvii–xix, 2, 4, 10–13, 19, 22–25, 28, 36–43, 46, 52–55, 62–68, 90, 93, 96, 103, 124, 131–132, 141, 143, 159, 162, 168, 179–180, 192, 199–201, 208, 211–213, 217–218, 221, 225–227, 247, 256, 259–261

castration of, 4, 132, 200, 226, 259

literary merits of, 10–12

Sima TanSee also grand astrologer, 63–66

Sima Xiangru, 11, 128, 192, 201, 261

Sima Zhen, 38

Son of HeavenSee also specific emperors, 104, 110, 150–151, 233, 239, 250

Song Qi, 57

Southern Histories (Nanshi),, 20, 28, 33

Southern Song dynasty, 57

Spencer, Herbert, 139

Spirit Mother, 158, 162

Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu),, 6, 169, 199, 201, 240, 244, 261

Spring and Autumn Annals of the Chu and Han (Chu-Han chunqiu),, 12, 199–200, 211, 219

Spring and Autumn era, 157, 199, 210, 234

Standard Histories, 28, 38, 47, 57, 180

state archives. See imperial archives

style. See specific name

Su Lang, 125, 243

Su Wu, 13–14

subtle speech (weiyan),, 6–7

Sui dynasty, 47, 59–60

Sui Hong, 194, 255

suicide, 106, 109, 131, 172, 226, 248

Suishu. See Records of the Sui

Suizhu. See History of the Sui

Sun Jian, 112, 241

Swann, Nancy Lee, 3, 35, 243, 262

sycophancy, 2, 4, 9, 15, 94, 124, 135, 166

Tacitus, Cornelius, xv

taichu era,, 21, 24, 52–53, 55, 66

Tang dynasty, 21, 43, 59

Tang Taizong, Emperor, 59

Tang Yao, 155, 253

text. See also book; narrative

accretions on, xiv, 17, 34–35, 49, 55, 60, 214

as edited, 5, 17–20, 56–58, 119–120

commentary of, 10, 12, 17, 19, 25, 28, 32–33, 35, 44–45, 47–48, 56–60, 88, 123, 129, 146, 179, 201, 214, 216–217, 224, 238, 254

content of, 11, 25, 30, 52, 84, 225

context of, xiv, xviii, 2, 52, 117, 133–134

corruption of, xiv, 26

cutting and pasting of, xvi–xvii, 22, 46

Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou), 14, 23, 87, 152–153, 199, 250, 252

Three Kings, 72, 154

throne

abdicating, 101, 104

usurping, 110, 112–113, 143, 177–178, 238, 247