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Sima Qian was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for the Shiji, a general history of China covering more than two thousand years fr
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The first page of the Shiji
The tomb and ancestral temple of Sima Qian, located in Hancheng, Shaanxi.
CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit painted figure of a cavalryman, horse detail
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The Shiji, also known as Records of the Grand Historian or The Grand Scribe's Records, is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written dur
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…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…
1982 printed edition by the Zhonghua Book Company
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Chapter 2, Annals of Xia (Ming dynasty edition, 1598)
Pages from volume eleven of a Ming dynasty printed edition of the Shiji