· The first selection presented here is a portion of the lengthy biography Sima Qian gives in the Records of the Grand Historian of the great Xiang Yu (Hsiang Yü), the powerful military leader of Chu who, seeking to become emperor, fought the Han for control of various states of China in a struggle called the Chu-Han Contention (– B.C.) following the collapse of the Qin (Ch’in) Dynasty. Author: Archive Librarian. Sima Qian (?? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to Author: Qian Sima. Redeeming Sima Qian Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian. 3 volumes: Han Dynasty I, Han Dynasty IT, Qin Dynasty. Translated by Burton Watson. Hong Kong and New York: The Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Columbia University Press, xxvii, pp. (vol. 1); xviii, pp. (vol. 2); xxi, pp. (vol. 3).
Sima Qian (c. B.C.E.) was China's first historian-he was known as Grand Astrologer at the court of Emperor Wu during the Han dynasty-and, along His Shiji (published for Columbia in a translation by Burton Watson as Records of the Grand Historian) not only became the model for the twenty-six. The Records of the Grand Historian or Shiji, written from BC to 91 BC by Sima Qian, is the first biographical history masterpiece in China. Accurate records and brilliant descriptions of the biographical history of these influential people hold great historical and literary values. The historian Sima Qian used the term Huang-Lao "as a characterization of persons belonging to a political group which This could be found in Records of the Grand Historian (史記), a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around 94 BC by the Han dynasty official Sima Qian.
Sima Qian (?? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to. Sima Qian (Szu-ma Chien; 司馬遷 c. or BC – 86 BC) was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his work, the Records of the Grand Historian, a Jizhuanti-style (纪传体) general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to his time, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. The Records of the Grand Historian, also known by its Chinese name Shiji, is a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around 94 BC by the Western Han Dynasty official Sima Qian after having been started by his father, Sima Tan, Grand Astrologer to the imperial court. The work covers the world as it was then known to the Chinese and a 2,year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in the author's own time. The Records has been.
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