The ceremony offering sacrifices to Sima Qian was held in Hancheng, Shaanxi province, Sima Qian's native place, March 29. [Photo/ Chinanews.cn] The ceremony to worship Sima Qian was held in ...

Sima Qian's calendar was considered revolutionary, setting 365.25 days to a year, and 29.53 days to a month The planet 12620 is named Simaqian in his honour Sima thought the purpose of history was ...

The man who wrote those words is by no means a nothing today. In a nation obsessed by its history, Sima Qian was the first and some say the greatest historian. Wind back two millennia. It is 99 BC.

A new study has corroborated an account of the Han conquest of the Nanyue kingdom in southern China (203-111BC) by ancient historian Sima Qian. The researchers also linked the watershed military ...

And what happened to Zhang Qian? The Shiji tells us, the masterpiece of Sima Qian (the founder of Chinese historiography), usually published with titles like “Historical Records” or “Memoirs of the ...

When Sima Qian, prefect grand scribe astrologer of China’s early Han dynasty, gazed up at the constellation of Orion a little more than 2,000 years ago, he didn’t see the brilliant crimson ...

Author of the Shi Ji (Records of the Grand Historian), Sima Qian told the history of China in the 2nd century BC in way nobody had done before; interviewing participants, influencing views on who ...