Sima Qian's father had been court historian before him and had started the project. On his sickbed, with both of them in tears, the father extracted from the son a promise to complete the epic work.

Sima Qian was born and grew up in Longmen, near present-day Hancheng, Shaanxi. He was raised in a family of astrologers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand S ...

Sima Qian was the great historian and man of letters in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24). He collected and detailed grand ceremonies of heaven worship on the top of Mount Tai made by ancient ...

Sima Qian is lauded for his Records of the Grand Historian, which offers a general history of the country, covering more than 3,000 years. In modern China, he is regarded the greatest historian of ...

Sima Qian: Grand Historian The historian whose objectivity got him into big trouble at court. When he confronted the emperor, he was subjected to a horrific and humiliating punishment. Show more ...

F. H. Mutschler, Sima Qian and His Western Colleagues: On Possible Categories of Description, History and Theory, Vol. 46, No. 2 (May, 2007), pp. 194-200 ...

Sima Qian thereby fits the representation of the characters in Shiji to the distinct gender roles articulated in Han Confucian ritual texts. Established in 1978 (first issue in 1979), Chinese ...

Object Details Author Sima, Qian approximately 145 B.C.-approximately 86 B.C Pei, Yin fl. 438 Sima, Zhen ca. 656-720 Zhang, Shoujie 8th cent Shi jie shu ju (Taipei, Taiwan) Bian ji bu Contents 880-07 ...

Stage play "Sima Qian", based on the life story of China's famous Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, is performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 17, 2019. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua) ...

For Sima Qian, writing history came at a price. Presenter: Rana Mitter Producer: Ben Crighton Researcher: Elizabeth Smith Rosser.