Sima Qian, the most important Chinese historian of Antiquity ... as Qian narrates. Because in another book, Qian portrays him as a court magician and astrologer, giving him the name Lao Dan and dating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fang gave Spence his Chinese name Shi Jingqian after the historian and writer Sima Qian from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 ... In 1974, Spence published his first book, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait ...

Sima Fried is an employment lawyer and commercial litigation attorney with more than 15 years of experience working with clients of all sizes. Fried prioritizes being a trusted resource for ...

(Did the Great Wall of China work?) An 18th-century painted album leaf depicts events chronicled by second-century B.C. historian Sima Qian, in which Qin Shi Huangdi burned Confucian texts and ...

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is ...

Michelle Obama is adding another book to her author byline, this time with photos of some of her most iconic fashion moments over the years. "The Look," out Nov. 4 from Penguin Random House ...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is releasing a book looking back at her favorite fashion and style moments over the years. Obama said she wanted to write the beauty book, titled "The Look," to ...

Naomi Biden, Joe Biden's granddaughter, delivered a scathing rebuke to a new book coming out about the former president and the cover-up of his decline while in office, calling it "political fairy ...

Readers in one Massachusetts book club spend an hour each month uniting in complete silence, and they are usually reading different books. “It is a sapphic, medieval horror," said Jessie Wright ...