Where can I find an English translation of Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian," or "Shiji"?

by Xentsev

Both I and my History teacher have been looking all over the internet, and the best we can find are partial translations, and scans of the original text in Classical Chinese. Surely there's a translation in full somewhere out there, right?

Serket84

There are plenty of copies in books and through subscription PDFs through universities. Is the issue that you cannot find a free online copy?

amindwandering

Surely there's a translation in full somewhere out there, right?

William Nienhauser has been leading a group currently working on a complete English translation since the mid-90's. Several volumes have been published by the Indiana University Press already, but as of spring 2018 the series remains incomplete. This is the first attempt at a complete English translation; all previous translations have been selections only.

I'm not sure how up to date this source (PDF warning) is, but it has a pretty good breakdown of which parts of the work have been translated by which people/groups up to the time is was composed.

(All of this is tangential to OP's original question, of course, which appears to be, "Somebody link me up to a free copy, please," but I stumbled across this post through a Google search, so hopefully this all might help out somebody else someday who finds this page the same way...)