Sima Qian

Also known as Father of History, Sima Chin, Ssu-ma Chien, Zichang, Sze-ma Ts'ien, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Sze-ma Tsien, Se-ma-tsien

2nd-century BCE Chinese historian and writer

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Sima Qian was a Chinese historian and writer from the 2nd century BCE who is best known for compiling one of the most important historical records of ancient China. His work established a foundational model for how Chinese history would be documented and studied for centuries to come.

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Born: ca. 145 B.C.
Died: ca. 86 B.C.
Works: 225

Top works

窦婴田蚡
歷史的長城, 史記
史记故事百篇
史记菁華錄
Shi ji

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5 total works indexed

Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,604x
Luminescent Functional Metal–Organic Frameworks
· 2011 · cited 5,524x
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,481x
Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network
· 2021 · cited 5,306x

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Quotes

“余嘗西至空峒，北過涿鹿，東漸於海，南浮江淮矣，至長老皆各往往稱黃帝、堯、舜之處，風教固殊焉，總之不離古文者近是。”
“吳王曰：「將軍罷休就舍，寡人不願下觀。」孫子曰：「王徒好其言，不能用其實。」於是闔廬知孫子能用兵，卒以為將。西破彊楚，入郢，北威齊晉，顯名諸侯，孫子與有力焉。”
“There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master.”

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name in native language: 司馬遷
Commons category: Sima Qian
Commons gallery: 司馬遷
date of birth: 0145-00-00
date of death: 0086-00-00
courtesy name: 子長
name in kana: しばせん
Commons Creator page: Sima Qian

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Courtesy name Traditional Chinese子長 Simplified Chinese子长

Sima Qian (c. 145 BC – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the Shiji (sometimes translated into English as Records of the Grand Historian), a general history of China covering more than two thousand years from the rise of the legendary Yellow Emperor and formation of the first Chinese polity to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, during which Sima wrote. As the first universal history of the world as it was known to the ancient Chinese, the Shiji served as a model for official histories for subsequent dynasties across the Sinosphere until the 20th century.