The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume V.1With Part I of the two part fifth volume of Ssu ma Ch'ien's Shi chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), we enter the world of the shih chia or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history of China's first states, from their establishment in the 11th century B. C. until their incorporation in the first empire under the Ch'in in 221 B. C. Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and biography based on early written and oral sources, many no longer