Sima Qian
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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
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- 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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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.
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