列れつ伝でん体たい

noun

biographical style

Refers to a style of historical writing that focuses on individual biographies, as seen in Chinese historiography and works like the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian).

• 司し馬ば遷せんの『史し記き』は列れつ伝でん体たいで書かかれている。

  Sima Qian's 'Records of the Grand Historian' is written in a biographical style.