季镇淮先生的《司马迁》写于1954年,1955年上海人民出版社初版,并于1979年修改再版。后来北京出版社组织出版“大家小书”系列,此书也被收入,季先生的学生夏晓虹为此次出版写了序言,介绍了此书在材料选择和行文风格上的特点。这篇序言连同季先生自己的初版《后记》和《再版前言》都收在了北京出版社的“大家小书”这个新 Mr. Ji Zhenhuai’s “Sima Qian” was written in 1954, the first edition of Shanghai People’s Publishing House in 1955, and revised in 1979. Later, Beijing Publishing House organized and published a series of books entitled “Everyone’s Small Books”, which was also rewarded. Mr. Xia’s student Xiaoxiao Hong wrote a preface for this publication and introduced the characteristics of this book in material selection and style of writing. This preface, together with Mr. Ji’s own first edition, “Postscript” and “Preface to the Second Edition,” are collected in the Beijing Press “Everyone’s Small Book,” a new