Li Ling on Records of the Grand Historian: “Later generations know Sima Qian as the author of the Shiji, a great name, but at the time the Grand Historian Sima Qian was a mere minor clerk of letters. His father's deathbed scene was described in detail by his son's own brush in the last chapter of the Records of the Grand Historian. [auto-translated]”
Shibue Chūsai on Records of the Grand Historian: “Mori Kien came and borrowed The Analects and the Records of the Grand Historian. The Analects was an old manuscript with Japanese reading marks, and the Records of the Grand Historian was a Korean edition. [auto-translated]”