Compiled in the 1st century BC by Sima Qian, it is a foundation text of Chinese history, and has been republished as a reference for national governance throughout the centuries. A precious Northern ...

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Sima Qian was born around 145BCE during the Han dynasty ... The Shiji was by far the most ambitious history book written at the time, comprising more than 130 chapters and stretching back 2,500 ...

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 ...

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Most of what is known about the tomb's interior comes from the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, who describes mercury being used to depict the hundred rivers, including the Yangtze ...

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Winegard’s book offers a catalogue of such stories ... In 94 B.C., the Chinese historian Sima Qian wrote, “In the area south of the Yangtze the land is low and the climate humid; adult ...

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