Sima Qian (Chinese: 司馬遷; ([sɹ̩́mà tɕʰjɛ́n]); c. 145 – c. 86 BC) was a Chinese historian during the early Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese...

early 1st centuries BC by the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, building upon work begun by his father Sima Tan. The work covers a 2,500-year period from the...

Grand Historian was completed by his son Sima Qian, who is considered the founder of Chinese historiography. Sima Tan studied astronomy with Tang Du, the...

earlier economical meaning for the term itself would be more suppositional, Sima Qian highlights the Book of Lord Shang's Chapter 3 on Agriculture and War,...

legendary Five Emperors, particularly the Yellow Emperor As early as Sima Qian, it was common to shorten the resulting four-character Qin Shi Huangdi...

high taxes, mass hunger, and arbitrary acts of violence and cruelty. Sima Qian provides lurid details of prolonged orgies of drunken sex and acts of...

Sima Qian. 《史記·卷九十二·淮陰侯列傳第三十二》 ["Ranked Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin", Records of the Grand Historian]. 項王亡將鐘離眛家在伊廬，素與信善。 Sima Qian. 《史記·卷九十二·淮陰侯列傳第三十二》...

kingdoms to each other through trade. Zhang's accounts were compiled by Sima Qian in the 1st century BC. The Central Asian parts of the Silk Road routes...

Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Multiple accounts of Laozi's biography are presented, with Sima Qian expressing various levels of doubt...

musicians. The construction of the tomb was described by the historian Sima Qian (145–90 BCE) in the Records of the Grand Historian, the first of China's...