Lu Xun renders a high praise and summary of the perfect fusion of historicity and literary quality in Historical Recordsby employing"the pinnacle of historiography,the unrhymed Lament",which is also a vivid expression of Sima Qian's historical philosophy.Considering the influence of Western historical perspectives on research methods since the 20th century,there have been three main methodological shifts:objective reconstructionism,subjective constructivism,and lin-guistic deconstructionism.This paper holds that Sima Qian's historical philosophy reflected in Historical Recordsis related closely to subjective constructivism,yet it stands out for two millennia with its precocious narrative strategy.This naturally leads one to think of the aesthetic pursuit of Sima Qian's"unrhymed Lament"as being remarkably similar to the fundamen-tal concepts of postmodern historical narratology constructed by American philosopher Hayden White.Even so,we can only regard this as a dialogue across time between postmodernism and classicism,with their respective ideas and references ulti-mately different.
Sima Qianthe theory of reconstructionconstructive theorynarrative philosophythe pinnacle of histori-ography,the unrhymed Lament
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