Liu Guangfen's Annotation of Sima Qian's Preface to Historical Recordsis an important document for the study of Historical Recordsin the late Qing Dynasty.Annotation of Sima Qian's Preface to Historical Recordscovers exten-sive areas,including comments on the role of historians,comments on the nature of Historical Records,explanations of An-notations of Six Schools of Thoughts,evaluations of the relationship between Spring and Autumn Annalsand Historical Re-cords,practical criticisms for the style and writing techniques,as well as assessments of the arrangement and themes of bi-ographies in Historical Records.There are various annotated ways in Liu Guangfen's Annotation of Sima Qian's Preface to Historical Records,and specifically,as far as the structure of Liu's annotation there are comments before the article,inter-spersed comments in the article,and concluding comments at the end of the article;as far as the methods concerned,there are interpretation,explanation,and clarification involved;as far as the characteristics concerned,Liu's annotations are dis-tinctive and outstanding,mainly focusing on Confucius's"principle of governing,"which runs through his book.Liu Guangfen's Annotation of Sima Qian's Preface to Historical Recordswith many innovative perspectives deserves the schol-ars'further attention.
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