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Ssu-Ma Kuang

Born 1017 or 1019; died 1086. Chinese historian.

The son of a high-ranking functionary, Ssu-ma Kuang was a member of the Hanlin Academy and worked as a censor, historiographer, and governmental adviser. A conservative, he opposed the reforms of Wang An-shih. Ssu-ma Kuang’s major historical work was Tzu chih t’ung-chien (The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), which encompassed the period from 403 B.C. to A.D. 959; it was compiled in collaboration with Liu Pin, Liu Shu, and Fan Tsu-yu.

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According to historical records, there was one kind of pillow called the 'vigilant pillow', which stemmed from the story about Sima Guang, a historian in the Song Dynasty.

The ceramic pillow in ancient China: Tang Ying explores the history of the ceramic pillow

Attention is paid to the great historians of the Song period, notably Ouyang Xiu and Sima Guang, from whose Comprehensive Mirror [1084] comes the title of this book.

Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China

In particular, Yang looks at Sima Guang and Shao Yong, both of whom maintained gardens in Luoyang.

Consider, for example, his translation of a couplet by Sima Guang (p.

Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry

who should know better, regarded these fictional stories as part of the informational education of women, and even as the female equivalent of the famous Zizhi tongji an by Sima Guang" (p.

Wherever possible, de Crespigny also identifies the sources of Sima Guang's text, coordinating this material with a helpful "Finding List" (pp.

To Establish Peace: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the Years 189 to 220 a.d. as Recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang

presumably Liu Yong, Mei Yaochen, Wang Yucheng, Lin Bu, Su Shunqin, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang).

Nature and Self: A Study of the Poetry of Su Dongpo with Comparisons to the Poetry of William Wordsworth

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