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 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 ...

Students today study Sima Qian’s biographical sketch of a Han general famous for ... but he’d been bamboozled by ‘counter-revolutionaries’. The Party then closed the book. Nothing more to see here, it ...

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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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Compiled in the 1st century BC by Sima Qian, it is a foundation text of Chinese ... A precious Northern Song period (960-1127) edition of the Houhanshu (Book of Later Han), which is about the ...